I am very new to the Crystal Formula programming part and I need some information.

I have a report that generates statements using a PeopleSoft SQL query. I have added a set of OMR markings to the report so that the a machine can fold more than one statement for the same person into a single envelope. That works fine but now I want to add a sequence check also. To do that I need to implement a counter variable that should only be initialized beginning of the report and then keep a basic count of each statement that is generated. I need to count from one to eight and then start from one again....all the way to the end of the report. What happens is that according to the value of this counter, three little stripes gets printed in specific positions as OMR markings to assist the machine to verify if there has been a problem with the sequence of the statements at the time of packaging for mailing or not.

I have formula fields representing the OMR markings and they are correct. I have added a "Report Header" as there was not one and inserted a formula field in it. In that formula I declare a variable like this:

Global Numbervar SeqChk;

Due to the fact that I need to add to this variable every time I generate a new Page header, I added another formula field on the Page Header where I want to add 1 to "SeqChk". Crystal does not seem to recognize that "SeqChk" is a global variable that has been declared in another formula and therefore,  can't add to it.  Any help in declaring/addressing variables in different formulas and how to keep track of a counter thru a whole report,  will be appreciated.