Report Generation: linebreak text in Word table row

Hello everybody.
Im trying to add some pretty tables to my Word report created with the Report Generation Toolkit.
I build my 2d string array with the table data and that works fine. But if I add a text to the array cell that has a linebreak constant it breaks the table. I.e my strings is not in the right place and some are missing in the table if linebreaks exists in the strings in the 2d string array that I feed to the 'Word Easy Table' VI. Se my lw 7.1 example below.
Any one have an ide how to solve this?
Attachments:
WordTable-LinebreakProblem.vi ‏82 KB

Paul,
You last response got me think about the complex nested grouping of my for loops that are surrounding and embedded in my table(s). I analyzed my groupings and found that two of my levels had similiar values. When I moved those groupings outside my table, the 3 TOC entries FINALLY appeared !!! Newbie error!!! Anyway, the only problem left to resolve is the page number is not generating with the TOC entries (Getting Bookmark Not Defined Problem). I am wondering if this is a context problem ...or still part of a looping problem. I also can't seem to get the table headers to replicate on page breaks in RTF mode. They do work in PDF generation mode. It is sort of difficult to pass info because I nature of the info I am working with. Thanks for your time and patience. I have learned alot just trying to get this complex template to work.
Thanks,
Tom

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