Hello Walter,

Thank you for your time.  In Databricks, I navigate to the Catalog tab, then to the view I want to look at.  Then on the Overview tab, in the Definition section we copy the view definition out.  This used to hold whatever format we used when we created the view.  Now, formatting has been applied to the front end.

We can get the unformatted view with SHOW CREATE TABLE, but that adds the list of fields at the top, which we do not want either.  

Example - how I created the view:

How it is shown in Catalog:

Thanks,
Seth