Hi Steve,

Works fine for me. Are you sure it's VFP8 (not VFP7) executable?

>I have upgraded to vfp8 and was going to take advantage of the new system variable "_pagetotal"
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>So I started using it in one of my reports. It works great in developer mode. But when I compile my application it returns an error. It only returns the error in the compiled exe. It does not return an error when running in the vfp8 development environment.
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>_pagetotal variable not found
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>as per the help example, i am placing
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"Page " + TRANS(_PAGENO) + " of " + TRANS( _PAGETOTAL)
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>inside a report textbox