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[David Thompson]

>However, originally Panorama didn't have assignments (Panorama's
>original "macro" feature wasn't really a programming language). Instead,
>you could assign a cell a value like this:
>
>Field Name
>"Fred"
>

snip

>So somewhere in your procedure there is a lose formula (it doesn't have
>to be a constant as shown above, it could be any formula that isn't part
>of an assignment or a parameter to a statement.

A text constant seems to be the only kind of loose formula that will 
compile. If you change the statements above to something like

Field Name
"Fred"+" "+"Mertz"

you get, "Cannot compile procedure - one or more incorrect steps."

You get the same error if the formula is a numeric constant, or just 
a field or variable name with no operators or functions.