In my experience reporting to ASCII doesn't work very well. You may want to move PDF up your list options a bit.
>When I print report to a ASCII file, some of my data fields are truncated. I guess my alternative is to set 'stretch when overflow'. But it is not a good idea to keep a 2nd copy of report format just for this. PDF is my very... last resort.
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>Is this a MS bug? Anyone knows a way to overcome this?