>I am creating a text file with TEXTMERGE. There are 1-500 records (lines) in the text file. The file creation works perfectly EXCEPT I keep getting a black line at the beginning of the file. Any suggestions? I have tried PRETEXT 1 and PRETEXT 4 to no avail. > >SET TEXTMERGE ON NOSHOW >SET TEXTMERGE TO C:\AUTO\test.txt >. >. >. >TEXT >"<>","<>","<>","<>" >endtext > >Thanks for any suggestions. This has our project dead in the water...