Take the 2-minute tour ×  In an application (though what follows
applies equal well to a report) there will be a panel which
shows a list of various statistics or facts, of this general
form: "Category: data". So, for example:  Date since last exam:
Jun 15, 2009.  My issue is that I would like to diaplay perhaps
about 10-20 such stats/facts in the panel, one fact per
line/row, in a way that looks best (neatest, cleanest). But, as
I began to do it, I realized there are quite a number of choices
of how one might align the words:    • Align the start of each
category only.   • Align each colon and start of each data only.
• Align the start of each category and also Align each colon and
start of each data   • Etc...Etc...  What's important to note is
that the total length of each line--category name + colon + data
--will vary, sometimes quite a bit. Therefore, each of these
alignment choices has a different look, but not one of them
provides a list of statistics that looks particularly pleasantly
even/balanced.