I'm not sure I understand what you mean by converting the form from VFP5 but I have been working in VFP6 from the start. There was no way to set the BackColor for the images as they don't have one. I'm not sure what is going on.

>Hmmm? My problems did go away when I changed those properties on shape items. By any chance is the form that you're working with converted from VFP5? I don't know why that would matter, but that seems to be where I run into trouble.
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>-Matt