Thanks for your help.

Do you think MS will ever make VFP consistent?

Some more oddities:
Can't cut & paste in Report Designer Expressions.
Editor eratic when cut & paste. Positioning the cursor for pasting.
Format and Input Masks are different formats in Form, Report, Grid.
And I sure there a lot more that I (as a newbie to VFP) have not seen.

The more I use it the better it gets. But do you think VB would be better to learn in the future?

Roland...

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>>Hi,
>>
>>How do you change the backcolor color of a Command Button? Can't seem to get it to change.
>>
>>Thanks in advance!
>>Roland...
>
>Roland,
>You can't directly change backcolor of a button from VFP. But visually there are ways to make virtually anything a button on form.
>
>-You could simply place image, label, shape etc in front of a button
>Problem : You should manually code a call to commandbutton's click for each :(
>
>-You could directly use an image, label, shape etc
>Problem : Controls are generally flat which do not look like a button + most of them do not get focus with keyboard. If multipl then again code to call the same click routine :(
>
>-You could place an 'invisible' (style property) button over a group of image, label, shape etc
>Better than others
>Problem : Flat and you lose mousedown-mouseup visual effects of a commandbutton :(
>
>-Well best solution IMHO is to use a container. With its SpecialEffect property a container could easily mimic a commandbutton. Below is the easiest implementation of concept :
>
>On a form put image, label, shape etc (whatever you want).
>On top of them place a container with properties :
>SpecialEffect = 0 && Raised
>BackStyle = 0 && Transparent
>On top of container place a commandbutton with Style invisible (to get focus like any other commandbutton with keyboard).
>
>There you go. In MouseDown, MouseUp you could change the SpecialEffect of container (+ any other control's color, caption etc) to give a feel of pressed button. ie : Mousedown
>with this.parent.fakeContainer
>.SpecialEffect = 1 && Sunken
>.Visible = .Visible
>endwith
>
>Combined with MouseMove code and OnMouseOut (a class in files\classes section) you're vey close to creating coolbuttons like IE toolbar :)
>Cetin