>>>Beautify is your friend!
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>>Yes, it is, until you work for someone who wants the ending commands to be indented.
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>WHY does anybody get the right to demand how something as trivial as this has to be done? Power corrupts.

Mike,

I'd say you've never worked as staff in a mid-sized or large corp.

Many laugh, but the "Procedure Division" of a COBOL program *can* be a beautiful thing - flowing English that is easy to understand (even for non-programmers).
HOWEVER, virtually every corp has turned it into a nightmare of ugliness and difficulty to read. There are standard prefixes/suffixes for 'memvars' and field names, etc. etc. as well as mandatory column alignment in the Procedure Division. Rules for virtually everything!

DorrisB's example is extreme to me too. To me there is undoubtedly a requirement for some standardization in 'team' (oh, how I hate that word) environments.

As an aside... I've never used Beautify in my life.