Pages Property

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Pages Property

       

Pages property as it applies to the Form and Report objects.

You can use the Pages property to return information needed to print page numbers in a form or report. Read/write Integer.

expression.Pages

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

Remarks

You can use the Pages properties in an expression, a macro, or Visual Basic.

This property is only available in Print Preview or when printing.

To refer to the Pages property in a macro or Visual Basic, the form or report must include a text box whose ControlSource property is set to an expression that uses Pages. For example, you can use the following expressions as the ControlSource property setting for a text box in a page footer.

This expression Prints
=Page A page number (for example, 1, 2, 3) in the page footer.
="Page " & Page & " of " & Pages "Page n of nn" (for example, Page 1 of 5, Page 2 of 5) in the page footer.
=Pages The total number pages in the form or report (for example, 5).

Pages property as it applies to the Control and TabControl objects.

Returns the number of pages in a control that supports tabbed pages (for example, a TabControl object). Read-only.

expression.Pages

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

Example

As it applies to the Form and Report objects.

The following example displays a message that tells how many pages the report contains. For this example to work, the report must include a text box for which the ControlSource property is set to the expression =Pages. To test this example, paste the following code into the Page Event for the Alphabetical List of Products form.

Dim intTotalPages As Integer
Dim strMsg As String

intTotalPages = Me.Pages
strMsg = "This report contains " & intTotalPages & " pages."
MsgBox strMsg

As it applies to the Control and TabControl objects.

The following example displays a message indicating the number of tabbed pages on tab control TabCtl1.

MsgBox "Number of pages in TabCtl1:" & TabCtl1.Pages.Count