TextEdit (Mac): How do I left- and right-align/separate two words on the same row?

One cheat would be to center align and insert tabs and spaces

For instance I did the words Test and Test. Center aligned the whole line. Then entered 8 tabs and about 6 spaces.

I used pages to do this and exported it as a word file (I used a two column table). Opening it in TextEdit retained the formatting. I couldn’t figure out how to actually do it in TextEdit.

Here is the file. You could just open that and edit the text.

Thanks. Johnpowell’s technique will work for now, but I still wonder if TextEdit isn’t cleaver enough to do this somehow. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this in Word back in the days (and apparently it’s possible in Pages), but… hrmph.

Well if I knew we got to use any program we wanted.snif.

Go “Format -> Text -> Table…”. This will insert a table and will open the table inspector window.
Set rows to 1, columns to 2.
In the left cell, type what you want then click the “align left” button.
In the right cell, type what you want then click the “align right” button.
For each cell, set the “cell border” to 0px.

Here’s a screen grab of what I did, but I’ve left the borders visible so you can see the effect.

2nd on chroma’s response. It’s why God created tables!

@maccmann: Because mac developers are gods… =P

YOU ARE A GOD!

I had no idea you could do tables in Textedit.

I didn’t think you could either. I even looked for it too.

Thanks for the positive comments guys! Glad to be of service.