Hi friends i am having a problem with RPAD i had written a procedure for sending emails with the message body i am alligning teh columns using RPAD(Variable name,length(Variable_name)+5,' ') . For some particular columns it is working fine but for some columns it is not working teh heading is getting moved to left side and one is moving to the right side . I dont know why that is happening. I request soembody to help me regarding the issue if you wnat means i can post the code also