Hans, This does not work for me either \starttabulatehead \NC left \NC right \NC \NR \stoptabulatehead It gives the following error This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=cont-en 2003.4.28) 14 JUN 2003 19:16 ...many lines cut... ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=1500]. \settrue #1->\chardef #1 \zerocount \tabulateheadcontent ...ettrue \tabulatesomeamble }\tabulateheadcontent \TAB... \tabulateheadcontent ...ble }\tabulateheadcontent \TABLEnoalign {\global \se... \tabulateheadcontent ...ble }\tabulateheadcontent \TABLEnoalign {\global \se... \tabulateheadcontent ...ble }\tabulateheadcontent \TABLEnoalign {\global \se... \tabulateheadcontent ...ble }\tabulateheadcontent \TABLEnoalign {\global \se... ... l.21 \stoptabulate If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. TIA -- Nigel