Chris,
Make sure your first line of TEXTMERGE output is generated with a \\ line. \ causes a CRLF before the rest of the output.
>Is there a way to set the top margin to 0 when using SET TEXTMERGE?
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>I'm creating a text file that will be used as an adobe acrobat fdf file, the problem is I get error messages because the first line is blank or should I be looking at another way of doing this?