Set header at runtime on Interactive Report

I have an interactive report that displays twelve months across the report. The user can then choose a start year and month for the first column of the report. So, at runtime, I would like to populate the header with the appropriate year/month.
On a regular report region, you can set the header using a Function returning colon delimited headings. I do not see this functionality on the interactive report. Am I overlooking something or is there another method where I can set the headers for these columns at runtime?
Thanks,

Andy,
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, I am having trouble implementing. When I place &P1_MONTH1. in my header, my header displays &P1_MONTH1. Hopefully, I am just implementing incorrectly. I am opening the Interactive Report and just entering &P1_MONTH1. in the Heading column for the appropriate column. Is this correct?
NOTE: I placed the &P1_MONTH1. on a SQL Report and it worked. However, when trying to use on an Interactive Report it does not.
Thanks,
Edited by: Brian H on Feb 18, 2009 9:40 AM

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