CalifDude,
To make things line up for sure, every single time, you need to use a table. That's what they're there for! Any webmaster will tell you to never, ever rely on simple fonts and spaces to line up text in columns. A fixed-spaced font like Courier (that you used) is good for simple columns of text, but for the large things that you put together, it is inadequate.
Luckily, the fantastic Lottery Post editor makes the job of inserting a table simple! Just click the Insert Table button and enter the number of rows and columns in your table. Don't worry about colors, borders, etc., until you are finished with building the table, and you've finished inserting all your content into the table. That way, if you make changes to your content, you didn't waste any time re-styling anything.
The wonderous Lottery Post editor makes it easy to go back and change anything about your table using either the various toolbar buttons, or my favorite method, using the right-click context menu. To style something in your table, you simply select it (a cell, row, or the whole table) and right-click it to show a big menu of options.
In no time flat, anyone can produce great-looking tables using this remarkable tool.
I created this table in literally 30 seconds:
Very simple, yet if I tried doing this using fixed fonts it would take much longer and produce worse results. Plus, you can see that I didn't get stuck using an ugly font!
Here's your text stuck into a simple table. Note that I didn't go crazy and create 10,000 columns or something, I just created a simple table with three columns and one row to keep the major items in nice, neat columns.
0 8
1 7
2 9
3 10
4 11
5 12
6 12
7 14
8 10
9 15 |
22.2%
19.4%
25.0%
27.8%
30.6%
33.3%
33.3%
38.9%
27.8%
41.7% |
608 705 102 690 420 803 704 041
159 731 102 169 618 517 041
279 284 572 526 283 792 102 420 429
365 693 397 853 283 731 493 803 538 735
684 284 493 420 704 948 469 496 467 429 041
578 365 572 957 159 853 526 705 597 517 538 735
684 608 365 693 526 690 169 618 967 469 496 467
578 279 397 572 957 705 731 597 792 967 517 704 735 467
684 608 578 284 853 283 618 803 948 538
279 693 397 957 159 597 792 493 690 169 967 948 469 496 429
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Again, for creating a nice table, the steps should be:
- Create a blank, unformatted table with about the right number of rows and columns (they can easily be added/removed later).
- Insert the basic unformatted content into the cells. That is important. If you are copying the text from another software package, use the Plain Text Paste or Paste From Word toolbar buttons instead of regular paste! If you end up with extra junk in there or formatting problems, it is not the editor's fault, because the functionality to clean it up is right there, one mouse-click away.
- After everything is setup with the right number of rows/columns and the content is all set, then go back and format it. It is a very simple matter of highlighting text and selecting the appropriate formatting, or right-clicking a table part and selecting "properties".
Hopefully this detailed discussion of table usage will help you in your endeavors, as I think you are one of those who presents a lot of tabular information on the forums, so you stand to benefit among the most from using tables.
I would be happy to address any questions, or continue more advanced discussion on this topic if you desire.