Sharon,
Is the the issue you were dealing with?
Syntax: SET SELMARGIN value
Range: 0 to the width of your screen
Default: 0
Use SELMARGIN to set the left margin for displaying the results of a SELECT
command.
The default for SELMARGIN is 0 (zero), which sets the margin to column 2. Use
SELMARGIN when an ASCII file requires a predefined position or when data has a
required starting point.
Note: Setting SELMARGIN to 0 (zero) or 2 begins the left margin at column two.
Randy Peterson
PS. You might try setting SELMARGIN to 1 if you want the title in the far
left position.
Sharon Lima wrote:
> Just to follow-up, I finally came up with the following:
> Since I could not move the Title Line all the way to the left,
> I added spaces before the first column so it falls under
> "Last Name" of the Title Line.
>
> CHOOSE vtEmpID FROM #VALUES FOR +
> (' ' +
> & LJS(FORMAT(ELNAME,'%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%'),16) +
> & LJS(FORMAT(EFNAME,'%%%%%%%%%%%%'),12) +
> & LJS(FORMAT(SPOUSE,'%%%%%%%%%%'),10)), +
> EMP# FROM Employee +
> ORDER BY ELNAME, EFNAME +
> AT CENTER, CENTER TITLE +
> 'Last Name First Name Spouse' +
> LINES 8 FORMATTED
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Downall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Choose Part 2 - Text Formatting
>
> > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:43:10 +0100, Alastair Burr wrote:
> >
> > >I think it was Bill Downall who has used a union command in the
> > >choose to add in a header line to the menu items.
> >
> > Yes, but it was rather kludgy. You have to be sure that the title sorts
> > alphabetically first, before the first real choice, and your code has to
> be
> > ready to deal with somebody choosing your jury-rigged "title."
> >
> > Richard's idea of "trial and error" until they line up with the TITLE
> 'title
> > text' syntax is what I usually do.
> >
> > What's quite nice now is that the newest DOS version will gracefully
> > ignore the Windows-only syntax features, like CAPTION and
> > FORMATTED, so you can more easily create CHOOSE commands
> > that look good in either DOS and Windows versions.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
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