Hi Terry

>The way I read it is that it takes on the window work area colour. I have my windows in a restful blue/green and that's the colour of my checkboxes.

I am getting them pure white. Maybe the shades are different but even I have green for normal textboxes and blue for compulsory fields. The only sores are the checkboxes of the form. The backcolor property of the checkbox does not work for me when I change the color. Could you provide more details.

>If you mean the checkbox label area, then obviously you can set its back colour to that of teh form?

No not the label area.

Thanks for responding.