I try to understand what you mean, but I am not quite sure if I got it right. Can't you use one DBF, with a character field to hold the headings, and a memo field to hold the rest?

>It is probably a Monday morning blind spot
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>I want to create a text file where the headings all alphabetic are on one dbf
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>and the detail to go under the headings is a mixture of text, numeric and dates on another dbf
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>Can I copy the data from the first file to a text file and somehow append the data from the second file to the same text file?
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>Thanks
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>Colin