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EXHIBIT 77(O) MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER TOTAL RETURN TRUST
10f-3 transactions for the period July 1999- December 31, 1999
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TOTAL
ISSUED/
DATE PRICE SHARES % of PRINCIPAL PURCHASED
SECURITY PURCHASED SHARE PURCHASED Assets AMOUNT BY FUND BROKER(S)
Charter Comm. 11/08/99 $ 19.00 176,000 1.000% $ 3,230,000,000.00 0.103% Goldman Sachs
Freemarkets 12/10/99 $ 48.00 100 0.002% $ 172,800,000.00 0.003% Goldman Sachs
Infonet Services 12/16/99 $ 21.00 7,400 0.014% $ 1,076,928,300.00 0.014% Merrill Lynch
UPS 11/09/99 $ 50.00 23,500 0.486% $ 5,470,000,000.00 0.215% CS First Boston
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