I am a newbie to FMPro and am stumped about how to get my DB file to print starting from page 57.

Each record will print on one page. And I want the first page to be page 57, not page 1. (pages 1-56

will come from another program). I am sure there is an easy way to do this, but I can not figure it out.

Any help is appreciated!!!!

Your not really explaining this right, but I think that I see what you are trying for. You have this final product, into which you are inserting some output from Filemaker Pro and that output occupys pages 57 thru whatever.

Since you are not really showing the "Page Number" you are showing an arbitrary number, then just show an arbitrary number.

Since each record prints out on a single page and each page needs to be sequentially numbered from a known starting point, then you just need to define a field to hold this value. Create that field and put it on a layout, then in browse mode use the Replace command to fill that field with a serial number starting at 57. Finally place this field on your report in place of the page number.

Thanks so much for the reply. It worked! I can't believe this was such a difficult answer to get.

Even the"experts" around here were stumped! Several of us had been searching for this answer

for some time.

You could just define a field using this calc:

DisplayedPageNumber = 56 + Status(CurrentRecordNumber)

and place that field on the printing layout. This will only work is one record takes up 1 page (but thats what you siad anyhow).

Also, this gives you flexibility to have the 56 in a global field so you can alter it without have to go into editing scripts or letting users loose to play with the replace function.