Well this did not work; however after looking more closley I had every item in my detail band set to float. After I set the uppermost field in the detail band to "Fixed relative with top band" the page number started working correctly.

>>It appears that _pageno is incremented after the detail so I thought I would be bright and use _pageno + 1 in my page header. It appeared to be working great until my customer informed me that the page number was not incrementing if a detail line item spanned accross multipal pages. Any suggestions. How can I make my own varible increment with every page. If I put the page number in the page footer it works great however this does not fit my customers specs.
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>Use a global varible and call a UDF to increment it in the page footer.
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>(1) In the page footer put a field with the value incrpageno(), set the print when to .F. and check remove if blank.
>(2) In the detail section reference the variable nMyPageNo
>(3)In the calling program do the following:
>nMyPageNo = 1
>report form myReport
>function incrpageno
>nMypageNo = nMyPageNo+1
>return
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>I have not tested this but this is close to an answer.
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>Hope I helped
>Robert