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====== Reader's Clinic - Blank Column Headings in RLIST=====

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|Sprezzatura Ltd|01 OCT 1991|2.1+|EXPERT|RLIST, COLUMN, HEADING, DICT.MFS|

Tim Darton of Xeryus Computing asked "How does one insert a totally blank
column in an RLIST report to space columns out?". Saving a dict item without
a column heading does not work, nor does removing the column heading with an
editor - DICT.MFS simply puts the record key into field 3 as the column
heading.

The only way in which this can be achieved is to insert a value mark into
field three of the dict item and to space pad this to the width of the
dictionary item. E.G. if a filler field of six spaces were required, insert
six spaces followed by an @VM on line three of the dict item and make the
dict item L#6. This has the desired effect, but because it makes the column
heading effectively two lined, it inserts a blank line into the heading.

To get around this problem, use the dict window, and in the heading prompt
type six spaces followed by an @VM then save the item. The @VM will be
stripped and the spaces will be left, producing a blank column heading.


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