>Hmm... @...SAYs are typically hard to maintain,

Well can I bounce another idea of you then.

If the premise is that the report will use fixed font (courier,10), I could create a one field database with a record for each row.

The field coordinates a user selects would then determine which row and at which position the data element is inserted to. If multiple elements would be
on the same row, the elements would have to be joined as in fld1+space(4)+fld2.

If this could work, I could provide 'canned' templates and the user could add their own. The system could print out a 'grid' so they could determine positioning.

What do you think?

Thanks.