I pretty much agree with what you have stated below. I find value in discussing my idea's before posting them to the wish list, so I will continue to do so. I encourage others to do the same!

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Jim. Since you failed to issue the correct, Set Rant On, your expressions are out of scope!

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>Todd,
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>First let me observe that no one who responded seemed to have picked up on the "B" option you had, namely B) A nice big blurb in the docs under _pageno for how to achive page#/tota pages in your VFP report. It seems to be a no-no to even suggest that VFP's documentation could use some improvement. Even when, as you cite (and which we all know happens to countless other "features" requiring relentlessly repeated questions) it comes up frequently.
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>The VFP team has virtually all of the information they need to improve the VFP Help (in particular) and documentation in general if they would only consider the 'problems' raised in forums like this.
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>Finally, Your thread title lets me make the argument (AGAIN) for a specific UT category. Imagine lots of similarly named threads. In a category the basic subject is implied so you could have titled this with more relevant wording.
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>Cheers,
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>Jim N
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>>I know that there is a way to do it, by pre-running the report to file, taking the _pageno value at the end, then re-running the report to the printer. But it seems like every day or two, there is someone here asking how to do it.
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>>I would think that if the VFP team were to create an internal process to do this, it would be faster, and more efficient. I dunno. There is already a wish list item, so I'll drop it. Thanks anyways, Mike!!!
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>>>Hi Todd,
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>>>>I would like to see either a report system variable for total number of pages in report, or
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>>>I'm not sure, but I think this can't be determined until the report has finished running, therefore if the REPORT FORM command were changed to run the quickly the first then a second time, it would be a very bad, slow and bad situation.
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>>>This would be extremely useful, and there probably is an alternate way. You might want to wait until some Guru's (ie: not me) fill you in.