User-entered number of pages to print in MS Access VBA - sql

Question

Is it possible to have a user enter the desired number of pages they wish to print onto a form, and be able to print "Page X of Y" on each page?
I have a small shipping label application that requires a dynamic number of labels to be printed for any given shipment, and is entered by the user.
The data used for the label information is returned from the following stored procedure
SELECT C1.CompanyName,
C1.Address1,
C1.Address2,
C1.City,
C1.Province,
C1.PostalCode,
C2.CustomerName,
C2.ShippingAddress1,
C2.ShippingAddress2,
C2.ShippingAddress3,
C2.ShippingAddress4,
C2.City,
C2.Province,
C2.PostalCode
FROM MyCompany_tb C1,
Customer_tb C2
WHERE C2.CustomerID = #CUSTOMER_ID
AND C2.InvoiceNumber = #INVOICE_NUMBER
This will produce a single record that includes my company "return address" information (C1), and pairs it with the the customer's shipping information (C2). The label(s) that get
printed need to print out "Box 1 of 3", "Box 2 of 3", etc, depending on the value entered by the user.
I found this article, but I would prefer to do this without creating a "temp table" in Access. Is something like this possible?

Answer 1

You need an additional table, but it can be a simple number table, with one LongInt column ID with numbers 1..n
Then use a cartesian product to get the number of records you want.
In VBA:
' lngNumRecords is the number entered by the user
TempVars.Add "NumRecords", lngNumRecords
The query:
SELECT YourQuery.*, "Box " & [tblNumbers].[ID] & " of " & [TempVars]![NumRecords] AS BoxNo
FROM YourQuery, tblNumbers
WHERE tblNumbers.ID <= [TempVars]![NumRecords]
There is no JOIN, so you get your main record replicated as many times as IDs are specified.
This assumes that YourQuery returns exactly one record.