# Re:  formatter question

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**Category:** Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit\
**Created:** [February 9, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/re-formatter-question/9216 "2010-02-09T10:15:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/re-formatter-question/9216/1 "2010-02-09T10:15:38Z")

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A few points to note:

-- You can still use a True Type font and be fixed-width ("monospaced").  
Courier New is a TTF and is definitely fixed-width. After comparing several  
fonts for usability, I use Lucida Console.

-- MS Word and many other word processors can define tabs in  
inches/cm/points/etc. Toad's MOE and every other text editor I've used are  
designed to use monospaced typefaces and therefore use a simpler character  
count instead. If I could use MOE as my MS Lookout email composer, I  
would...

ENH-REQ: Has it been requested before to have Toad filter out proportional  
spaced fonts? If not, then I will!

Rich -- [TeamTypeface]

Disclaimer: There's no business like snow business.

> When I copy the formatted text from Toad and paste it intoWord in Courier  
> font, and then switch the font to Arial, it still lines up the same, so  
> Word seems to handle tabs and variable width fonts differently than Toad.  
> Switching the tab widths and changing the font to Courier makes  
> everything line up nice in Toad. Thanks for the info!
> 
> Dunbar, Norman wrote:
> 
> > PS. Rich should chime in any time soon, he loves font related threads!