How can I get vertical columns of numbers to align in the wordprocessor?
The first important thing to note is that you cannot guarantee vertical alignment if you use spaces to move an item to a particular column. You must use Tabs. Secondly the fonts used by the PcW16 are proportional which means that thin characters such as 1,l,i appear on screen and printer much thinner than 0,O,W,M, etc. So a number such as 123.45 will not vertically align under 823.45 because 1 is thinner than 8. The way to overcome this is to mark the numbers as a block and then use the Style menu’s Change Text Style entry to set the text to be `Number in columns’. That makes all the selected numbers and spaces of equal width so a 1 and an 8 will be the same width and those numbers will align vertically. One other point – if you are working on columns of numbers are you sure the wordprocessor is the best tool to use? – the spreadsheet’s sole purpose in life is to operate on columns of numbers and it does it a lot better than the word processor!
