You need to turn off formatting if you want to force a return. Try this: Text text text text... .FO OFF 1)Point number 1 2)Point number 2 .FO ON More text text text text... This <is> documented but note carefully that it (and all other formatting commands) work only in templates that are not "linear" templates. If you look in the list of templates found in chapter 9, you will see that some of the templates are listed like this: - SUB_CLOSED (linear): this is the message that is sent to a subscriber This means that the SUB_CLOSED template form is a linear template form and does not accept (in fact ignores) any dot commands you put in it to try to format the text. Nathan