When text doesn't stay where you type it

If you commonly use the cursor keys to move the cursor over large spaces when your edit profile has NULLS on, the spaces are not in place when you press the Enter key. For example, if you have two columns of information and you move the cursor between the columns with the cursor key instead of the space bar, there is no space between the columns when you press the Enter key.

If you type the following with NULLS on and use the cursor key to move between columns, this is what you see before you pressed the Enter key:

  ITEM                  PRICE
Apples                   .35 ea.
Oranges                  .45 ea.

After you press the ENTER key, you see:

ITEMPRICE
Apples.35 ea.
Oranges.45 ea.

To avoid having the text shift, you can do one of two things:

Enter nulls off on the COMMAND/OPTION line. Your edit profile changes and all the remaining blanks in a record become spaces instead of nulls. However, the insert key does not work when nulls are off, unless you create space by erasing blanks in a record.
Use the space bar when moving the cursor from one column to another.