I recently created a form in VFP 3.0b and explicitly issued SET TALK OFF and SET STATUS BAR OFF in the LOAD event of the form. It seems, however, that throughout the form's existence, the talk setting changes to ON when I don't have any other SET TALK statements in any other object used. This is very unpleasant because text appears on the form itself. which ruins the appearance of the form. The form was created from VFP's form base class so the form would only inherit the properties of a VFP default form. Is there any way to insure that the TALK settings do not get changed? Would this have anything to do with the SET STATUS BAR OFF setting? Does this have anything to do with the scope of the SET TALK SETTING? Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.