Column A Determines the Purpose of a Row

The contents of column A of each row (the first column of the Spec range) determine the purpose of all the columns in the row.

There are five possible types of rows in a report specification:

• Comment rows:

If column A starts with "..", the row is a comment row.

• "As is" rows:

If column A is blank, the row is part of the report and will appear "as is" on the final report.

• Default rows:

If column A starts with "\\", the row is used for setting up defaults for the remaining rows on the report. You can have more than one default specification row; each applies to the rows between it and the next default row.

• Title rows:

If column A starts with "\T", the row is used for defining title lines on the final report. You can have up to five title rows; which will appear at the top of each tab of the report (immediately under the header lines).

• Body specification rows:

Rows that start with account number references are called body specification rows.

If column A contains any other data, that data is assumed to be a reference to one or more account numbers. And, if an account number appears in column A, it generally means that all the printed columns in the row will contain data from that account.