Hi, Here's my problem. I have 2 strings "employe_name" and "ext_phone" that I concatenate together with a padding character “.” between them in way that each string will make 30 characters. However when I show up the report each concatenated string doesn’t occupy the same space at the screen. What I have right now is SMITH, John................234 LEE, Jason................987 But I would like to have this SMITH, John...........234 LEE, Jason.............987 How can I make sure that 2 string with the same character length (30 characters) they will take the same space at the screen? Thanks Jeff