Use the SECTIONPAGES field instead.

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"Monty" wrote in message
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How do you get the NUMPAGES field to only count pages in a section rather
than the whole document. The example from MS using a formula with the
bookmark StartingNumber does not work as it comes up with undefined
bookmark.
Using Word 2003 and 2002.