with this
>> .Setall('Forecolor',rgb(128,128,128),'Page')
>> .pages(.ActivePage).Forecolor = rgb(255,0,0)
>> return .ActivePage
>>endwith

Cetin, thanks for your sample code, which I hve used, and it works fine apart from one problem...

In my page, I have 10 tabs. When I click on Page1 and Page 2, the correct tab changes colour. But if I click on tab 3, the fith tab changes colour. This also happens to other tabs..e.g if I click on tab 8, tab 10 changes colour.
I think this is because , at some stage, I moved the order of tabs around.
What eactly is the ActivePage proprty. In the help, it says it returns the NUMBER of the active page, but I cannot find a NUMBER property of the individual pages anywhere.

Any ideas of how to fix this problem.
Thanks for your help.
Gerard