Hi, Gillian: In addition to Clint's note, you can find more detail by searching FM online help or Google for book page count framemaker. ________________ Regards,
Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices At 9:55 AM -0700 4/4/06, Owen, Clint wrote: >Gillian, > >As you can see, <$lastpagenum> only picks up the value from the chapter >where it resides. You can get it to work as you want by using a cross >reference. Put <$lastpagenum> in a paragraph by itself somewhere in the >second chapter (I put it on an un-used master page), then create a cross >reference marker called "Total Pg Count" or something. Now go to your first >chapter and invoke the cross reference from the other chapter instead of the >variable. It is not as elegant, but it works. Make sure that you update your >cross references.
