>>When creating reports: every time I add a label or control and move focus away from the control it disappears. I found that I could make it stay visible by unchecking the Use Default Foreground (Pen) Color on the label properties Style tab or by setting the Foreground Color on the Format menu.
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>>However I do not want to have to do this for every control. How can I set a default foreground pen color that will automatically apply to each new control added or have that boxed unchecked for each new control?
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>Hi Lou,
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>I don't see such behavior in the Report Designer. By default, all added labels and fields stay visible all the time. You should find and correct the cause of the problem. I would start with deleting foxuser.dbf. If it doesn't help, try to upgarde to the latest video driver, check screen resolution and color settings.

Sergey
FWIW, i have this behavior ( labels disapearing at design time ) all the time, i think i even filed a bug about this. I think in my case it's RTL ( Hebrew Windows ) related.
What i do in VFP9, is double click on the object, set the properties, click ok. If the label/field is still visible, i let it be. If it's invisible, i just double-click on it again, click ok, and voila, it's back.

Jaime