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Field Descriptions

The following table describes the display and input fields of the Column Heading Specifications panel. These descriptions are divided into sections that correspond to the layout of the panel.

Command

Defines system-wide commands.

View ID

Displays the ID of the logical view.

Sel

Defines system-wide selection codes for manipulating data: inserting, deleting, repeating, copying, and moving.

Rec

Specifies the number of the record on the logical page from which you want to extract data for the column heading.

The data you extract from this record starts in the same position and continues for the length specified in the column specifications for this column.

Clr

Specifies a color to use (blue, red, pink, green, turquoise, yellow, white).

Hlt

Specifies a type of highlighting to use.

Values are bold (B), reverse video (R), or underscore (U).

Text

Specifies text for the column heading.

The text is enclosed in single quotes (if you do not supply them).

Note: If you want to include blank spaces, either as a column, heading or preceding or following other text, enclose the text with blanks in single quotes; otherwise, the blank spaces are deleted.

To include a blank line within a column heading, you must have at least one blank space enclosed in quotes in the Text field for that line of the heading.