Sue,

If you're using FileMaker 10 or later, you can use:

Name & Char ( 9 ) & birthday

HTH.

Lee.
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On Aug 31, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Sue wrote:

> 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
>