Below is a sample code of the report that I am trying to fix. I couldn't figure out how to do couple of things.
1. Is there a way to categorize columns under different titles(they are not across fields)?
For ex: I want to show SEATS and SALES as "Type A"(merge cells on top of SEATS & SALES to show Type A ) and LENGTH, WIDTH, HEIGHT as "Type B"

2. I also wanted to show column percentages along the bottom of column totals. – I tried RECAP but it doesn't show correct percentages.

I appreciate if anybody can help me to achieve this.

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DEFINE FILE CAR
GRANDTOT/I5 = SEATS + SALES + LENGTH + WIDTH + HEIGHT;
END
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TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
GRANDTOT NOPRINT

SUM
COMPUTE ROWTOT/I5 = SEATS + SALES + LENGTH + WIDTH + HEIGHT; NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY

SUM
SEATS
SALES
LENGTH
WIDTH
HEIGHT
BY COUNTRY
ACROSS BODYTYPE AS ''

COMPUTE RTOT/I7 = ROWTOT; AS 'Total by Country'
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
END

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

Check out HEADALIGN and COLSPAN to see if you can get a column title that spans more than a single column. You may also have to add ans AS phrase to the columns.

You could also get creative with your column titles and do something like this:

DEFINE FILE CAR
GRANDTOT/I5 = SEATS + SALES + LENGTH + WIDTH + HEIGHT;
NBODYTYPE/A200=BODYTYPE|'<BR> <BR>&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;TYPE A&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;TYPE B';
END
-**************
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
GRANDTOT NOPRINT

SUM
COMPUTE ROWTOT/I5 = SEATS + SALES + LENGTH + WIDTH + HEIGHT; NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY

SUM
SEATS 
SALES 
LENGTH 
WIDTH 
HEIGHT 
BY COUNTRY
ACROSS NBODYTYPE AS ''

COMPUTE RTOT/I7 = ROWTOT; AS 'Total by Country'
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
END

In order to get the percentages to display correctly you need to have and ON TABLE RECOMPUTE.

Darin,
Thank you for your response. Preferred format for this report is Excel, is there a way to skip a line in Excel headings?

I tried RECOMPUTE with prefix but it doesn't work with this query.

Are you meaning column titles? Two commas together insert a blank line in a column title.

Not quite sure what you're trying to do with a prefix.

Darin,
Thank you for all the suggestions, I was able to complete the report using a different method. But the time taken just for aligning total percentages is more than developing 4 new reports and still not aligned properly with column totals. I hope that IBI will introduce a method that can easily calculate and format total column percentages(in Excel) in a future release.