Hi:
I think if you show/hide the symbols when you open the RTF file in Word, you'll be able to see whether what is inserted into the RTF file is a section break, a paragraph or a page break. Since you have STARTPAGE=NO, the page break is turned off, but you might still be inserting a section break between procedures.
It's not actually TABULATE, per se, that is inserting empty "lines". Every procedure, by default, starts on a new page --no matter what the procedure is. When you turn STARTPAGE=NO, then you are turning off the page break, but I believe that white space is still inserted.
You might want to open a track with Tech Support to see whether changing the PARSKIP element (as shown here https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/246-2011.pdf on pages 4-5) would help you in this scenario.
Cynthia
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