Character mode report no new line after header.

I am using Reports 6i. I have a character mode report with a header and body. I am outputing it as a .cvs file. The problem is that there is no live feed after the header. This means when I load the .csv file into excel the first row has the headers and the first data record, after that is it OK. Eatch row in the spreadsheet has a single data record/row.
any ideas?
ben

can anybody help me with this?
i have read that font size for character mode reports can be set in prt files.
i am using dflt.prt
i want to change font size to eg. 8 and to print font condensed, but i was enable to find any online manual how to do this, please advise me or supply url with relevant manual for editing prt files.
thanks and regards
rade

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