Record a macro to do it.

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Bob Phillips

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"samart" wrote in message
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i need to know how to add a page to the &[pages] command

in the previous version of excel we wrote &[page] of &[pages]+1

first page number set at 2

this would give us sht 5 of 5 when there were only 4 sheets

giving us the ability to have sheet 1 from a different file