Thanks Dave,

That took care of the problem.

>Chris,
>
>Make sure your first line of TEXTMERGE output is generated with a \\ line. \ causes a CRLF before the rest of the output.
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>>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?