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Dear eviews team,

Program version: Eviews 8, 64 Bit
OS: Windows 7

Issue:
The ddtabopts options "format" does not work as reported in following example taken from the online Eviews 8 help text:
hgrp.ddtabopts firstfreq(a) secfreq(none) +displayname fillcolor(@rgb(205,201,201)) yrformat(YY) format(units=n, fmt=f.2)
This produces the error message "Invalid series or row specification in 'format' spec"
The same applies correspondingly when one tries to set "font" option for the table as a whole

Possible workarounds:
On may set these optiones row by row, via the ddrowopts command, but this is cumbersome
Alternatively, one may define these options manually

Suggestion:
It would be nice if the font and format were available as programmable options for the table as a whole

Best, mamo

The example in the docs are incorrect. It should read

hgrp.ddtabopts firstfreq(a) secfreq(none) +displayname fillcolor(@rgb(205,201,201)) yrformat(YY) format(1,units=n, fmt=f.2)

..and the numerical display format for the first row is set to native with two decimal places.

The description for the format argument (in the argument table towards the top of the docs) however is correct.

format(row, fmt, units, prefix=....

The same applies to the font example.