>Actually, all I am trying to do is to add a little life to my buttons. I tried changing the forecolor on a mousemove event but I can't seem to detect when the mouse LEAVES the button. Is there such an event? Do you know of any other techniques for sprucing up buttons? TIA.

There is no event for when the mouse leaves the button, but I've been able to simulate that by putting code in the MouseMove event of the container or form underneath the button. It takes more code and is kind of a pain, but it's possible. FWIW, we're supposed to get new events in VFP7 to handle this sort of thing.