Thank you, Tom, Dick, Razzak & Konstantin. To take the "problem" with deleting sections first, I do get the double arrow-headed mouse pointer and the section line does go red but I have been holding the mouse button down while pressing delete to remove which does give me the message asking me to confirm that I want to delete. I have been holding the mouse button down because that was the way I read the manual - although I have now double-checked all the help files I could find and can see that it doesn't actually say to hold it down. So, maybe, that was the cause of the problem but, somehow, I'm not sure that it is. I have a suspicion that it _may_ be connected with how I move the section to expand or contract a section or moving fields between sections.
What I have been doing to expand a section is dragging the lowest section line down, then dragging the next lowest, etc., and letting R:Base "push" the fields down at the same time. Is this a bad idea? I have noticed that _sometimes_ a field might "jump" to another section when this is done so perhaps this is also part of my problem. If, as Konstantin says, no field should touch a report or section border, then this, too, may be part of my problem. One of the things I am doing is writing my R:Base reports to produce HTML code so I have a relatively large number of text fields containing HTML tags, etc., and a relatively small number of columns or variables which form part of an HTML table when the report is produced. I have been placing all the fields as close together as possible so that I don't get blank lines in what is meant to be a text file that comes out of R:Base. It is this text file that I cannot get to work although it can be printed to the screen. I haven't tried printing to my printer as it will be useless to me but I could try a page or two I suppose. Again, Konstantin says that line length abilities might be part of this problem although my fields are all inside the margins of the report writer. Presumably, in Dos the line length made no difference as there was a finite area (and I never had any problems with these same reports) but in Windows perhaps it is handled differently - and I do have long text fields. As far as I know I have all my variables defined and placed correctly but I will check them (yet) again. Just one point on what Razzak mentioned about saving and that is that I would do just as indicated and not save if I made a mistake but I have taken to using the preview facility and I suspect that by doing so the report is saved then whether I like it or not. This would be the same as the Dos version but I had not equated the two as the same because in Dos you get a report whereas, to me, in Windows you get a mock-up of the report and the text is un-readable. Maybe this would be a good subject for enlightenment by one of your "From The Edge" offerings, Razzak - "How to produce text reports to files from R:Base for Windows." If I work out what I'm doing wrong I'll let the list know so that, hopefully, nobody else need make the same mistakes. Regards, Alastair. ---------------------------------- A D B Burr, St. Albans, UK. ---------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------
