>>>When I put my cursor over the button, the ToolTipText is not showing up? It works on my toolbar, but not
>>>on my form. help..
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>>Form.ShowTips=.T.
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>thanks Edward... that works great!!.. I notice on the FORM the tooltiptext
>times out. I do not want it to timeout...Is there another setting?
>thanks again...

I have never seen ToolTip timeouted. May be you just moved the mouse? BTW, you can always move mouse over the control using MOUSE command.