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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