>Terry, thanks for your reply buy it doesn´t seem to work either with mychkbox.BackStyle= 1 (opaque) or mychkbox.BackStyle= 0 (transparent).
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>I think I'll have to change the icon shown as Borislav suggested depending on the state using the .DownPicture property!
Boris is always reminding me how much more there is to learn:) Now I have to go see what the "DownPicture" property is all about.
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