Abstract: A method and apparatus for feeding a sheet substack formed by one or a greater number of stacked sheets from a sheet stack (8), in particular feeding the sheets into a cutting saw from a feed station (1) or similar unit, the feed station comprising a pusher (11) for transferring the sheet substack from atop a sheet stack (8) and a back gauge (12) or similar element, in which station at least one of the following, either the back gauge (12) or the sheet stack (8), or even both, is/are movable relative to each other in the vertical direction, in which method the sheet stack (8) or the back gauge (12), or both, is/are moved relative to each other in the vertical direction and the pusher (11) is employed for pushing the sheet substack remaining above the upper edge of the back gage (12) to further processing.