FM to fix text length

Hi....
I've got a problem in Smartform where in if the firs column fields lenght(character type) is less it printing the second column in the space and the order of column entry is shuffling.....
My text length is 30 character long i've fixed it like &itab-text(30)& in text element........but when the text character is less that 20 chars i'm having the shuffling problem and the second column get fixed up the space and the order gets misplace.....i'm using tab stop for giving space between two columns and its fixed for every columns......i tried this my concatenating space when the text lenght is less than 20 chars....but still the same problem........and tried every thing now i just wonder do we have any FM to fix the lenght of text to achieve the result.......
Points wud be surely awarded.....Thxxxxxxxxxxxxx

hi,
may be this function module will helpful for u for fomating the text.
CALL FUNCTION 'FORMAT_TEXTLINES'
EXPORTING
cursor_column = 1
cursor_line = 1
endline = 99999
formatwidth = 45
linewidth = 45
startline = 1
language = sy-langu
*IMPORTING
*NEW_CURSOR_COLUMN =
*NEW_CURSOR_LINE =
TABLES
lines = g_tline
EXCEPTIONS
BOUND_ERROR = 1
OTHERS = 2
IF sy-subrc eq 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.

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