Column Definition Names, Descriptions, and Titles

When you set up a column definition, you enter a column definition name, a description, and a title. In the Column Definition Description and Column Definition Title fields, you cannot use a single quotation mark (') in the field.

For the Column Definition Name field, you cannot use spaces, and cannot use any of the following characters:

• Tilde (~)

• Single quotation mark (')

• Double quotation marks (")

• Grave accent (')

• Exclamation point (!)

• At (@)

• Number sign (#)

• Dollar sign ($)

• Percent sign (%)

• Circumflex (^)

• Ampersand (&)

• Asterisk (*)

• Left parentheses (()

• Right parentheses ())

• Hyphen (-)

• Plus sign (+)

• Equal sign (=)

• Left bracket ([)

• Right bracket (])

• Left brace ({)

• Right brace (})

• Vertical bar (|)

• Slash (/)

• Backslash (\)

• Semicolon (;)

• Colon (:)

• Greater than symbol (>)

• Less than symbol (<)

• Comma (,)

• Question mark (?)

Note: You can use the period punctuation mark (.) and underscores (_) in the name, description, and title fields. Spaces between characters are allowed for descriptions and titles, but not for names.

If you enter a column definition name, description, or title with a non-supported special character or space, the Revise Column Definitions form issues an error message. You must modify the characters before you can continue.