>Nadya,
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>If I understand this correctly, you are using the tab to keep things in line with each other. because you are using a non-proportional font, why dont you use space(4) instead, I know it will make the end result file a bit larger, but at least it will be done to the desired effect.

Iain,

The other program expects to find TAB at some places, so it really should be a tab character. Anyway, I gave up Report Writer after couple of resultless efforts and wrote a program to create output I desired. I'll post this program in another thread (though it was in this thread too).