Export to Fixed Field Spacing using TOAD....

Hi Guys,
Here's my situation. I am exporting my data-set from TOAD to a Fixed width text file, but i dont see the option to specify the length that each column should occupy. Is there any way i could do this?
For example:
I am running the query :
Select Column_1,
Column_2
from table_1
Data-Set :
column_1 column_2
XYZ------ABC
UUR------HHY
When i look at the columns they are defined as :
Column_1 Varchar2(35)
Column_2 Varchar2(40)
When I am exporting the data set to a Fixed width file, I want to manually say that the length of the column_1 is 40 bytes and length of column_2 is 50 bytes etc. and not 35 or 40. Please Advise.
Thanks,
Kon

First of all, you should be posting this in TOAD forums.
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