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How can I fill blank spaces with \dotfill in \tabbing environment? How can I adjust the length of \dotfill?

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabbing}
\hspace*{3cm}\=\hspace*{2cm}\= \kill
column1a \> column2a \> column3a \\
column1b \> column2b \> column3b 
\end{tabbing}

\end{document}

tabbing

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    Apparently, the cells’ contents are always boxed at their natural width; the space between cells in a row is added later. – egreg Mar 10 '17 at 11:34

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You could try to replace tabbing by tabular or longtable:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{@{}p{3cm}<{\dotfill}@{}p{2cm}<{\dotfill}@{}p{\dimexpr\linewidth-5cm}<{\dotfill}@{}}
column1a & column2a & column3a \\
column1b & column2b & column3b 
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

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resp.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array,longtable}
\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{@{}p{3cm}<{\dotfill}@{}p{2cm}<{\dotfill}@{}p{\dimexpr\linewidth-5cm}@{}}
column1a & column2a & column3a \\
column1b & column2b & column3b 
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

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