On the Report Layout frame, display formats are represented by letters, symbols and lines. For example, a simple integer display format looks like this:

The letter i indicates the integer display format and the underscore line shows the remaining number of characters in the column. Fixed punctuation is also shown in a display format representation. For example, a display format for a column containing financial data might look like this:

The total width of the representation (symbols plus underscore) equals the total width of the column.

RBF permits the same display formats as Report-Writer except for the B, q0, and c0 formats. The c0.w format, however, is valid in RBF.