>I would like to change the mouse pointer to the hand icon over specific hotspots on my form. How can I accomplish this? The pointer I want to use is the hand everyone is familiar with when we click on hyperlinks.

You'll have to use the MouseMove event of the individual items required and set the .MousePointer value to 99, and the .MouseIcon property to the filename of the hand cursor. Check your machine for the file h_point.cur. In the form's .MouseMove, set it back to the default.

hth,