You can learn to edit the FORMAT string directly. This is made much easier with a tool that splits (parses) the FORMAT into one Column per Line. I made one and Mark wrote an IDE plug-in.
E.g. you just have to add an ‘’ to each column for Color or a ‘Y’ for style. Seeing the Format split out makes it easy to see which columns are missing the '’ / ‘Y’.
FORMAT('[' &|
'27R(2)|M~Cust.~C(0)@n_6@' &|
'41R(4)|M~Meter~C(0)@n_9@' &|
'4C|M~Port~@n1@' &|
'](85)|M~I.D. Numbers~' &|
'[' &|
'38R(2)|M~Previous~C(0)@d1@' &|
'47R(2)|M~Current~C(0)@d1@' &|
'](76)|M~Reading Dates~' &|
'[' &|
'41R(2)|M~Current~C(0)@n_9@' &|
'41R(2)|M~Prior~C(0)@n_9@' &|
'39R(2)|M~Usage~C(0)@n-9@' &|
'22C|M~Meter~@s1@' &|
'21C|M~Read~@s1@' &|
'4C|M~Final~@s1@' &|
'](224)|M~Readings~' ), |