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THE SCENARIO: You have a delimited file with irregular column widths, ruling out the use of 'default tab spacing' because that would put too much white space on the screen (making for long horizontal scrolls). The use of 'Tab stops' only work if you have fewer than 32 columns of data, and even so ...

Thanks, this has been bugging me for months! It pays to read the forums.

I do text editing to tab delimited data that contains numbers with preceding zeros, like zip codes, which make Excel unacceptable (it eliminates preceding zeros when opening txt files). TextPad's Preference setting "Default tab spacing", under Tabulation, can put way too much white space on the page ...