Does anyone know a way to include a tab in a concatenated text  
calculation?

I have several situations where it would be nice to have a field of  
text that includes tabs so that the beginning letter of various parts  
of the calculated field line up.  E.g.  I have a field that returns a  
name and a birthday.  I would like the name and birthday values to be  
separated by a tab instead of a set number of spaces so that I could  
use the List function to give me an output that looks like:

Joe Smith        January 1
Sarah Johnson    January 20

instead of

Joe Smith        January 1
Sarah Johnson        January 20

I tried creating a calculation looking at length of the name and  
returning a variable number of spaces which I then included in the  
calculation--eg Name & Tabcalc & birthday, but that didn't work quite  
right--maybe due to the different kerning for different letters (eg an  
i perhaps uses less space than m)?

That leaves me out of ideas.  Maybe it isn't possible, but if it is, I  
would like to know how to do it.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Sue