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In this SE question, Inheriting Stylesheets when using CreateDocument, I noticed the literal string argument "Output" to Column. I didn't see any documentation for this argument (see below), and I didn't see any effect of the argument:

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and was curious what it does or doesn't do, or what it's supposed to do.

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    $\begingroup$ I think Column may be a very forgiving function with Options it does not understand. Try Column[{{1, 2, 3}, {3, 4, 5}}, "Harry"] or `Column[{{1, 2, 3}, {3, 4, 5}}, "Reb.Cabin"]'. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 13, 2016 at 17:55

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It seems that it will align the column to the first character of the string you put there. So it's an undocumented extension to:

"c" - align on the character "c" 

Column[{ "OffOutputasodas", "OutputOffo", "adssoadasOffOutput" }, "Output" ]

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Column[{ "OffOutputasodas", "oOutputOffo", "adssoadasOffOutput" }, "output" ]

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