Yes, you can access it directly from the report...which is much better than calling a UDF to turn right around and access it (which is the silly idea I just proposed to you).
>On the second thought, this idea still may work. If we instantiate a private variable oProgBar, we can access it in report. I'm not sure, how to calculate number of pages in advance, but I can make some rough determenition...
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>I'll see, what I can do. For now, I use animation...
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Steve Gibson