You could give the cells a custom format of:

General*.;-General*.;0*.;@*.
Positive;negative;0;text

The *. says to repeat the dot enough to fill the cell (to the right).

You may not want it on the numbers, though.

Stressed Student wrote:

I am setting up a list of marathon records and I want them to display
name.............time................date......... .......location
in a word document. Is there any way to format my Excell Table to
automatically put the period progression between fields?

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Dave Peterson