Rex, add a report variable that will hold the offset from the actual pagenumber (ie in the report put something like "Page number" _pageno+offset) before you run the report USE the report as a table (which it is) and change te initial value of that report variable (I described this in the feb or jan vfug newsletter) don't forget to exclude the report from the project Arnon > > > I need to be able to set the starting page number for my reports using the > Report Designer. This is because the users want to be able to include the > reports in the middle of a larger document. > > It is easy enough to set up the printing of the page number using the > system variable _pageno. However, I have tried setting this to another > value without success - both external to the designer and in the init event > under Data Environment. > > Any help would be appreciated. :) >