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LisaSklar
Obsidian | Level 7

I am trying to add leading spaces to a calculated item that is going on a button bar, but VA won't display them. I am using 7.4. I have tried adding the spaces to the text itself inside the quotation marks, and also concatenating a sting of just spaces.

 

(This is to workaround the inability to right justify text in button bars... which is to workaround the fact that you can't put a text box in the report prompt area...)

 

Thanks.

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Astounding
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As a SAS programmer with no VA knowledge ...

 

Are you able to apply a format to your field?  In SAS language, the $CHAR formats maintain leading blanks that might otherwise be removed from displaying:

 

format varname $char10.;

 

 

LisaSklar
Obsidian | Level 7

Unfortunately, that did not work. Thanks for the suggestion, though. 

LisaSklar
Obsidian | Level 7
Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry to hear there's not a way to make that work, but I appreciate the response.

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