You can shorten it to

REPLICATE(chr(10),9)

>Sergey,
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>Thanks for your response. I actually changed it a bit to get it to work. I put the following expression:
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>"chr(10)+chr(10)+chr(10)+chr(10)+chr(10)+chr(10)+chr(10)+chr(10)+chr(10)"
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>in the page header and added put "_pageno <> 1" into the print when expression. i left the 2" margin at the top of the title block. now it works perfectly.
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>Vim