>Harry,
>
>The ColumnWidth is in Pixels. Because most fonts used in Windows are >proportional, there's not really a way to set a width to a number of >characters. You'll probably just have to expirement with the widths until you >get what you want. The alias.field, field, field,... syntax is correct. Put in >column widths (eg, 100,150) and you should see the results you want.


thanks for that. Should have twigged the pixels!! Shame about the control on widths, but at least I will not now waste weeks trying to get it!


Harry