smartforms text element alignments

Hi Experts,

In my text element in smartforms, I need to provide some fixed space between two columns as below.

txt1 txt2

123456.00 $6789.0

But if value in coulmn1 is nil, then column2 goes to left i.e the alignment is disturbed as below:

txt1 txt2

$67898.0

I cannot put template as i need to provide page protection.

Pls suggest.

thanks

Dan