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Hello,

My organization is in the process of upgrading from Visual COBOL 4 to Visual COBOL 7. I've been setting up formatting in the Visual Studio settings for it and I notice a difference in behavior. In VC4, if I selected a section that looked something like this:

if value-item > 5
    move value-item to other-value-item
end-if

and used the Format Selection function, I'd had it configured where it would result in this:

If value-item > 5
    Move value-item To other-value-item
End-if

Basically, it would do proper capitalization of keywords. I've tried everything I can find in the settings to replicate this behavior in VC7, but it never touched capitalization, leaving everything as it was and applying all other formatting settings. Is there something I'm potentially missing, or was this changed from 4 to 7?


#VisualCOBOL
#VisualStudio

Hello,

My organization is in the process of upgrading from Visual COBOL 4 to Visual COBOL 7. I've been setting up formatting in the Visual Studio settings for it and I notice a difference in behavior. In VC4, if I selected a section that looked something like this:

if value-item > 5
    move value-item to other-value-item
end-if

and used the Format Selection function, I'd had it configured where it would result in this:

If value-item > 5
    Move value-item To other-value-item
End-if

Basically, it would do proper capitalization of keywords. I've tried everything I can find in the settings to replicate this behavior in VC7, but it never touched capitalization, leaving everything as it was and applying all other formatting settings. Is there something I'm potentially missing, or was this changed from 4 to 7?


#VisualCOBOL
#VisualStudio

Hi Chris,

I just tested this and the option for Capitalize first letter appears to have gone missing as of V5.0 and is still missing in 7.0

I suggest that you open up a support case with Customer Care and report this as a problem.

Thanks


Hi Chris,

I just tested this and the option for Capitalize first letter appears to have gone missing as of V5.0 and is still missing in 7.0

I suggest that you open up a support case with Customer Care and report this as a problem.

Thanks

Thank you for this information. I will open up a support case.