Cetin,

Worked perfectly! I appreciate your help.

Bly

>>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...
>
>Start first line with \\
>Cetin