Hi Bonnie,

>Do the same thing as you did for Font in your base class, override the Text property.
>
>

>	public override string Text
>	{
>		get { return base.Text; }
>		set { base.Text = "Edit"; }
>	}
>

That does the trick - many thanks. Does this mean that any property (color, font, text) that you want to see at design-time must be overriden at base.property level? Seems to defeat the object of inheritance to me.

Alan