>Hi Viv, I've got a workaround for now - I've added a Click event in my form for all the user controls in the panel , in it I iterate through all the controls in the panel and if they are not the one that fired the event I set them back to defaut ( not very elegant but it works ) If you can think of a better way please let me know.

I think I just did :-}

Thanks for your time.