Form Letters - column spacing

[Cliff_Wiernik]

Is there any way to define form letters where character spacing for columnar data is preserved.____The report writer, form letter features, do not appear to allow easy inclusion of data that would would like to be a a specific position.____You can do that within the designer, but it would be nice to have it in the memo field capabilities. ____Possibly, reflect a tab with a jump to predefined tab stops that you could define in the report.________

[Cliff_Wiernik]

Any comments on this and potential improvements in the form letter capabilities.____The form letter process works well but has problems when you want to align data in columns, which is often desired for table like information.____Currently the process ignores tabs in the memo string. I think a way of handling this, that worked well with the wordperfect word processor would be to provide for a way to enter a line of tab stops, or set a tap stop for ever 0.5", or variable amounts like:__<TS .5,1.25,2.5,4> and then when tabs are entered process the jump to the tabstop. ____I think this would be a welcome addition.

[Cliff_Wiernik]

It would also be nice if the capabilities could be expanded to allow the color of the font to be specified for form letter text.

[cstrasser]

These are good ideas, Cliff. I^d eventually like to do more with the memo-field capability. Unfortunately, at this point, these enhancements are a lower priority.

[Cliff_Wiernik]

Any idea on when the new release may come out. ____Also, what would it take to move this up in the priority?? i.e. cost. We have done something like this in the past with the 2GB limits.____Cliff.