It's known issue. To get correct page count you've to do the first run either to a file or to a window activated with NOSHOW.
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>When reporting the same set of data from a
>table trying to obtain the total page count
>of the report, I have the following 2
>"REPORT FORM" commands in my app and I
>found that the _pageno generated by command
># 1 is correct while #2 isn't (count is 1 less).
>Is there something about these two command that
>I don't know about, or is this a vfp fault?
>
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>1. REPORT FORM Customer PREVIEW WINDOW PreviewWin
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>2. REPORT FORM V_order NOCONSOLE