I am trying to write a report like this:

TABLE FILE XYZ
SUM ALPHA
BY SEQ NOPRINT
BY ALPHA NOPRINT
SUM DOLLAR
ACROSS PERIOD AS '' ROW-TOTAL COLUMNS Q1 AND Q2 AND Q3
BY SEQ NOPRINT
ON SEQ SUBFOOT
" "
"INT PLAN <19><30>"
" "
BY ALPHA NOPRINT
END

Where C2 is the value of DOLLAR for column Q1.

When I run this, Focus says it doesn't know what C2 and C3 are. When I remove the 'ST.', the report works for C2, but C3 is random characters.

How do I get the subtotal? How do I get DOLLARs for Q2 and Q3?

kiddpete, could you try editing your post? i don't actually see a reference to C1 or to C2 ro to a 'ST.'; might help us understand your prob better.

How did that happen? Yikes!
Ahhh, the character combination means something to the display software. Change the () below to <>.

TABLE FILE XYZ
SUM ALPHA
BY SEQ NOPRINT
BY ALPHA NOPRINT
SUM DOLLAR
ACROSS PERIOD AS '' ROW-TOTAL COLUMNS Q1 AND Q2 AND Q3
BY SEQ NOPRINT
ON SEQ SUBFOOT
" "
"INT PLAN <19> (ST.C2) <30> (ST.C3)"
" "
BY ALPHA NOPRINT
END

same here, when i print C6 for Canything for my across report, i get "*" instead of the value

You are getting '*' may be because of the number of characters exceed.

Try SET COUNTWIDTH=9

hope it helps,

Thanks