2007/10/9, Aric Bills :

Thanks Wolfgang--your solution does just what I needed. I'll study it.

Best regards, Aric

(Apologies if I've sent my reply improperly)

Hi Aric, you should also take a look at the columnset machanism and his manual. I don't know if it is possible to extent the header in the margin but it supports spanning headers over multiple columns. http://pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/columns.pdf Wolfgang