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<span class="f_Para">This section describes how to navigate through and control the execution of the program code you are debugging.</span>

<span class="f_Para">GUI buttons, menus, and commands let you execute a request all at once, or let you advance execution in increments (by pausing after executing individual statements, optionally bypassing the code display from calls to subroutines and methods).</span>

<span class="f_Para">You can explicitly set &quot;breakpoints&quot; in a request before which program execution is to pause, and you can toggle defaults a) to pause or not at the end of the evaluation of a request, and b) to pause or not after processing READ SCREEN statements.</span>

<span class="f_Para">You can discontinue the debugging of all or part of a request called by your program, skipping the execution of the entire request or of the remaining part of the request.</span>

<span class="f_Para">You can continue code execution without interruption until a procedure you identify by name or pattern is reached. And you can jump out of the normal flow of code execution, executing the statement to which you jump, but not executing the intervening statements.</span>

<span class="f_Para">These subsections follow:</span>

<span class="f_SimpleListText">[[Step, Step Over, and Run|Step, Step Over, and Run]]</span>

<span class="f_SimpleListText">[[Using breakpoints|Using breakpoints]]</span>

<span class="f_SimpleListText">[[Suppressing the break at the end of request evaluation|Suppressing the break at the end of request evaluation]]</span>

<span class="f_SimpleListText">[[Breaking after READ SCREEN or READ MENU statements|Breaking after READ SCREEN or READ MENU statements]]</span>

<span class="f_SimpleListText">[[step_out.html|Stepping out]]</span>

<span class="f_SimpleListText">[[end_execution_early.html|Cancelling execution]]</span>

<span class="f_SimpleListText">[[Excluding sections of source code from debugging|Excluding sections of source code from debugging]]</span>

<span class="f_SimpleListText">[[altering_flow_of_execution.html|Altering the flow of execution]]</span>

<span class="f_SimpleListText">[[previewing_program_code.html|Previewing program code]]</span>

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