>>I see now. Sorry have no idea. I never trust report when it's ASCII and roll my own text merging.
>
>Do you have some templates which drive text merging routines ?

Nothing special. For your report it might look like :

select test
SET TEXTMERGE TO test.txt noshow
SET TEXTMERGE on
scan
  \<<f1>>
  \
  \
  \<<f2>>
  \
  \<<f3>>
endscan
SET TEXTMERGE to
SET TEXTMERGE off
MODIFY COMMAND test.txt

Cetin