Greetings James.

Only just spotted your reply. Had forgotten about this question. Yet another example of my own stupidity.

>>Are you writing in Visual Fox or Fox for Windows?

vfp

>>In Visual Fox, the message box font is controlled by the Windows™ "appearance" setting for messagebox, at least it is in Win98.

indeed. And it was the fact that I'd forgotten I wasn't using the straight messagebox. I use a modified version of Dragan's original. That has font control built in and I'd switched it off. Duh!

Thanks for the reply though!

Harry