>>>No, not with VFP8. You must run the report, and then _pagetotal will give the value. Time to upgrade, since VFP9 has the feature you want ...
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>>It does exist in VFP8.
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>Yes, you're right, sorry for the confusion. Since most of the enhancements which were introduced in VFP9 was related to the report writer, I took for granted that also the new "report once behind the scene to get _pagetotal" behavior was new in VFP9. It has been years since I used VFP8.

Lucky you <g>