Processing with awk

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I currently have a file whose contents are:

RangingDates    		1       20090224        20090225        17      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 19:58:00
FutureModuleList        1       20090225        20090226        6       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 06:00:00
StoreDescription        1       20090225        20090226        5       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 05:02:00
StoreToDisplay  		1       20090225        20090226        5       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 05:19:00
FutureStoreToDisplay   	1       20090225        20090226        6       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 06:05:00
FutureStoreDescription    	1       20090225        20090226        6       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 06:06:00
Module  	1       20090224        20090225        15      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 15:00:00
ModuleDispOpt   1       20090224        20090225        15      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 15:01:00
DispOptProduct  		1       20090224        20090225        14      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 15:11:00
StoreDispOpt    		1       20090224        20090225        15      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 15:13:00
StoreItem       		1       20090224        20090225        13      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 14:08:00

Could you please suggest appropriate awk commands for this manipulation so that the output appears as:


RangingDates    		1       20090224        20090225        17      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 19:58:00
FutureModuleList                1       20090225        20090226        6       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 06:00:00
StoreDescription                1       20090225        20090226        5       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 05:02:00
StoreToDisplay  		1       20090225        20090226        5       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 05:19:00
FutureStoreToDisplay   	1       20090225        20090226        6       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 06:05:00
FutureStoreDescription    	1       20090225        20090226        6       0       Export Complete 2009-02-24 06:06:00
Module  			 1       20090224        20090225        15      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 15:00:00
ModuleDispOpt   		1       20090224        20090225        15      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 15:01:00
DispOptProduct  		1       20090224        20090225        14      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 15:11:00
StoreDispOpt    		1       20090224        20090225        15      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 15:13:00
StoreItem       		1       20090224        20090225        13      0       Export Complete 2009-02-23 14:08:00

The above display may not appear correctly. But the intent should be understood please.

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If you just want a neat tabulated output, use printf with specific field widths and ignore the tabs...

printf("%-40s %-3s %-8s  %-8s  %-3s  %-3s  %s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7);
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Thank You. Yor solution has been very helpful.

Yippeee!