thanks Antonia
I had activated the window
and had tried about 10 variations on what dragan had suggested but when I see yours, i realize I had missed it.
works great - many many thanks.

k

>Did you ACTIVATEd the window in the process?
>

>DEFINE WINDOW bm4b ;
>FROM 24,76 TO 44,180;
>FONT 'Arial Narrow ',7 ;
>STYLE 'N' ; 
>COLOR RGB (61,84,122,255,255,231)
>
>ACTIVATE WINDOW bm4b
>
>@ 0,0 SAY "This is in the font defined for the window"
>
>@ 2,0 SAY "The same font, in bold" STYLE 'B'
>
>@ 4,0 SAY "Now, with different font and style" FONT 'Times New Roman', 9 STYLE 'BI'
>

>
>
>>>>>>i have a window open with font defined for the window- is it possible to have a portion of the text in that window appear in a different font?
>>>>>>tnx
>>>>>>k
>>>>>>

>>>>>>DEFINE WINDOW bm4b ;
>>>>>>FROM 24,76 TO 44,180;
>>>>>>FONT 'Arial Narrow ',7 ;
>>>>>>STYLE 'N' ; 
>>>>>>COLOR RGB (61,84,122,255,255,231)
>>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>How are you putting the text into the window?
>>>>>
>>>>>Tamar
>>>>
>>>>old school:
>>>>@12,5 say 'This is my text'
>>>
>>>The old school say command also has font clauses... don't remember the exact syntax, but try with the likely candidates... @xx,yy say "bla bla" font "Tahoma, 8, N" sounds about right.
>>
>>thanks dragan - good thought actually - however all I get is change out of windoe defined font into default VFP font - I guess backwards compatibility will only take you so far backwards. not to worry worth the try though.