Thanks Craig. In all the years of using VFP I never used that property but it solved the problem.

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>>Hi
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>>I am using VFP 9 on Windows 8.1 and cannot seem to get the page control to respect the color settings. The background is white even though the default is set to RGB(240,240,240). Other controls like the shape and container all respect the background colours. I am using the default values supplied by VFP. It does not seem to matter whether the ColorSource is Windows Colors or the Object colors. The background is always white. Has anyone been successful changing the page background colour in Windows 8.1?
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>>Thanks,
>>Simon