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How to change the alignment of fields on column mode?

Fixed width text files are special cases of ASCII or UNICODE text files where the format is specified by column widths. Character Delimited Text files are special cases of ASCII or UNICODE text files where the fields are separated by the specified delimiter character.

Here is a typical Fixed Width Text file. Its first field is said to be 8 characters, 2nd field to be 6, third field to be 6, 4th field to be 7, 5th and 6th fields to be 8. It would look something like this:

145400.0   6.1   0.0  383.0   383.0  1713.0
146700.0   5.3   0.0  392.0   392.0  1695.0
147300.0   6.3   0.0  421.0   421.0  1693.0
148750.0   5.5   0.0  384.0   384.0  1699.0
149600.0   5.9   0.0  394.0   394.0  1830.0
150750.0   7.1   0.0  381.0   381.0  1791.0
151800.0  10.0   0.0  401.0   401.0  1796.0
153050.0  13.6   0.0  531.0   531.0  2344.0
154200.0   2.4  19.1  445.0  1108.0  2368.0
155100.0   3.5  26.1  497.0  1285.0  2486.0

Now, selects its second field on column mode. The second field is aligned right. It would look something like this:

To change the alignment of second field to left, you can use "Align Left" command (Column menu).

To change the alignment of second field to center, you can use "Align Center" command (Column menu).