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Too much manual work to track the "biggest" data for each column.

I was looking for something like this
http://www.ultraedit.com/support/tutori ... files.html where it scans all the data and it decides the "biggest" data

I would prefer something where it takes the biggest data in the column and use that as the "column-width".

Replacing commas with tabs doesn't really line it up if one of data is "big" and others are "small".

Hi, Is there any macro that can line up delimited data for easier viewing? Excel import is too cumbersome. Ex: Orginal File PET,FRUIT,COLOR,SHAPE Dog,Lemon,Red,Triangle Cat,Lime,Blue,Circle Bird,Orange,Yellow,Square Desired Output PET ,FRUIT ,COLOR ,SHAPE Dog ,Lemon ,Red ,Triangle Cat ,Lime ,Blue ...

Its very useful for me. Specially when opening up code in different workspaces. For example, we have 3 workspaces set up here at my work. DEV, TEST, LIVE. I have a program open in DEV (G:\DEV\src\java\orders\Order.java) I want to open the TEST version of that program (G:\TEST\src\java\orders\Order ...

Does anyone know how to force Textpad to recognize nested comments? The line "LINE1" shows up as BLUE, instead of GREEN. By the way, the programming language is called Progress and I downloaded the Syntax Definitions from the website. COMMENTS = GREEN CODE = BLUE CODE1 /*** COMMENT1 /*** COMMENT2 ...

When trying to do a Search or Replace, sometimes its hard to come up w/ RegExp, so what I do is use a combination of Replace and Block Select Mode. Heres a simple example: Lets say my goal is to align the second items in each line. banana, pears, apple lemon, mango, pineapple, lime avocado, lime ...

in the Find in Files, instead of just showing "Searching for: Dog"
how about "Searching for: 'Dog' in files '*.txt' in folder 'C:\windows'"

this way when i look back later in my old searches i know what criteria i entered

1) press SHIFT+F10 then B (to put you in Block Select mode) 2) select the first half column of your data, making sure it captures all the zipcodes only on the left side and none of the zipcodes on the right side 3) press F8 (search and replace) 4) type "(123)" in Find-What 5) type "AL (123)" in ...

pressing SHIFT+F10 is similar to right-clicking

If you wanna compare files, press CTRL-F9 or Tools > Compare Files then type in both the filename.
No need for splitting windows.

Also try Visualdiff. Its free unlike ExamdiffPro