I just add 3-5 spaces at the end of my strings so any leftover characters are replaced with a space. I did have some code that forced a specific number of characters for a number so 123.5 would be displayed as that, however 57.1 would be displayed as 057.1, therefore no change in character location is needed. if I can find my code Ill post it. you might search for leading 0's? dont know. henrik or one of the other mods may help with this too.