I may have reported this minor glitch before in the COBOL language settings (additional to the *.cpy extension): The "correct" names for the buttons would be "free-form" and "fixed-form", maybe add a tooltip "set areas to defaults for free-form/fixed-form reference-format". The is no "free" or "strict" mode (compilers *may* have a strict or relaxed syntax check but this is a completely different topic).
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