Hi @Anthony-Bouttell, @PeterJones, @guy038, All:
For the sake of variety, look at this non-regex solution (it only requires the BetterMultiSelection and Elastic Tabstops plugins installed and enabled, which you can download and install via Plugins Admin):
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First off, open Preferences -> Editing, and enable the Multi-Editing Settings.
Then, do as the movie shows:
Go to the first line and insert the required spaces to move the second word up to column 32.
Press Home to place the caret at the beginning of this line.
Press Shift + Alt and move the caret from the top line until the bottom of the list with the arrow down - you will get a giant caret blinking along 8 lines with no characters selected.
Press Ctrl + Right twice. Eight carets will be blinking at the left of each second word.
Press Shift + Left to backward select a space.
Press Tab to magically align all the second words.
Press Esc and then Down to release the multiselection.
Select Plugins -> Elastic Tabstops -> Convert Tabstops to Spaces.
That’s all. Hope you like it.
Have fun!