Setting tabstrip to fit multi column listbox

AlexanderBB

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My Form uses tabstrip above a multi column listbox.
The width of each tab is (I think) determined by the caption size.
My goal is to set the tabs to the same widths as the list columns, irrespective of the captions.
If I'm correct the captions would need padding. The Font is Tahoma Bold 9

Does anyone have any suggestions how best to do this?
 

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Something like this maybe? It might take a bit of trial and error with the space padding and widths as there doesn't seem to be a lot of control over the tab widths in a tabstrip other than through the caption, but someone else may know of a way.

VBA Code:
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
    With Me.ListBox1
        .Width = 290
        .ColumnHeads = True
        .ColumnCount = 2
        .ColumnWidths = "3 cm;7cm"
    End With
    With Me.TabStrip1
        .Width = 290
        .Tabs(0).Caption = Space(10) & "Longer caption"
        .Tabs(1).Caption = Space(77) & "x"
    End With
End Sub

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Thanks for the ideas. I think it was a big ask, as you've confirmed, you can only set the width fore the whole tabstrip.The tab captions vary too. My only solution may be to adjust manually and hard code the widths for each. Knowing the column widths doesn't help.
I'm trying this out out but open to any other suggestions.
 
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