Use a tab stop to separate the fields.

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"jay" wrote in message
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I'm doing a mail merge, and the data of the second field on a line is
positioned on that line based on how many characters there are in the
first
field. I'd like to freeze the location of the data in the second field not
to
be dependent on how many characters there are in the first field.