>>>Today I received the third call from a panicked user wondering if the report
>>>they selected was really going to print 65,534 pages. I'm calling "report
>>>form (reportname) to printer prompt noconsole". Is there a simple way to tell it the number of report pages? Using VFP 8 SP 1 on Windows 2000.
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>>Chris,
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>>You can include RANGE 1, nTotalPages in your REPORT FORM statement and those numbers will be filled-in into the prompt
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>Okay. I looked at _PAGETOTAL in help, it implies to me that it's only set after the report is run, so it's unavailable to use in the REPORT FORM statment. Is there a way to do it in one pass?

No, but you may try to do a rough estimate yourself if you're not printing memos and report is a simple one.