text formatting

Hi everybody,
Im using the following code to genetare a text formatting
mystr= ' somthing
For x = 1 To 50 - Len(mystr)
mystr = mystr + " " + "."
Next
my problem is for different lenght of mystr even when i use truetype font
the results don't line up correctly

first text .............................1
seocnd long text ................2
altough we have the same number of characters in each line but 1 and 2 don't
line up correctly . any suggestions?
Thanks,
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Best regards,
Edward
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