You'll have to use a calculated field for Y: { = { NUMPAGES } - 2 }

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"anet" wrote in message
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I have a title page & toc BEFORE my pg. 1 and i want my "y" to start on pg
1
not 3.
example: Title page (no pg #), TOC (pg. i), then the document starts (pg 1
of ??) I want the end number to begin with the document, not the title
page.
How do i change this?