Hi Allan --

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I'm new to VB - just starting to learn after using VFP for the last number of years.

Question: Which property controls the color of the text in a command button? VFP has a ForeColor property that handles this.
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As Eric indicated, the standard command button honors the user's choice of colors. There is another option that's easier than mucking with subclassing and drawing your own captions, though! Just use a checkbox control, and set it's Style property to Graphical (1). To make it behave just like a standard command button, use code like this:

Private Sub Check1_Click()
   Check1.Value = vbUnchecked
   ' actual work here...
End Sub

Later... Karl

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