In some of my FEXes, I have a defined field that can be, say, 20 characters if one value is chosen, or if a different value is chosen, it can then be 27 characters and so on. I use this defined field in a report tile, but when I try to center it, the shorter field does not look centered, due to having extra characters that are blank.

Is there a way to redefine the field to be exactly the length of the value that gets chosen, so that it looks "nice" and centered when used in a title of a report?

Thanks in advance.... looking forward to hearing from you.

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

Can you provide a Car file example of what you are trying to do?

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This is going to depend upon a couple of different things. What is your output type? If it's HTML, HTML squishes all blanks into a single blank so that may explain why your heading does not appear correctly. Try it in PDf format. Also, it makes a difference whether you have "<FIELDNAME" or "<FIELDNAME>" (with the closing carat.) The end carat preserves trailing spaces so the position of the heading would not vary in it's starting position, but would not look centered. leaving off the end carat should always center the field exactly. If there are other items on the same line you wish to center, you're probably out of luck because WF does not allow you to center only a specific item in a line. Also, if you're using spot markers for placement of a field in a heading, that wil override the justify=center in the stylesheet.

Here's an example of something that works:

-* File car.fex
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR MODEL RCOST DCOST SEATS
BY COUNTRY
HEADING
"<COUNTRY"
"1234567890"
" "
ON COUNTRY PAGE-BREAK
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN,
     SQUEEZE=ON,
     ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
     GRID=OFF,
     FONT='ARIAL',
     SIZE=10,
     COLOR='BLACK',
     BACKCOLOR='NONE',
     STYLE=NORMAL,
$
TYPE=HEADING, JUSTIFY=CENTER,$
ENDSTYLE
END

To all who replied, thank you. Arglen looks like the best way to go. The reply suggesting ideas for HTML and PDF would not work, since I am using Mainframe FOCUS Release 7.1, which can not deal with HTML or PDF nicely.

I will keep on trying a few other things.

Again,

Thanks!