>>>Is there a way to change the color of a command button?
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>>Assuming you mean the BackColor, not natively. And before you start building your own alternative, do consider what will happen if the user changes his colors in Windows.
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>>Tamar
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>Unfortunalty less technically savvy project managers tend to have their own ideas about the way things should look. Anyway I'll just tell him that it's too much trouble. I just thought I would post here to make sure. I didn't really want to mess with it anyway.

Refer him to the Windows User Experience document (what used to be called the Windows Interface Guidelines). Or, just point out that for users with color blindness or other visual impairments, changing those colors can be the difference between an application being usable and not being usable. There's a reason Windows ships with high contrast color sets, after all.

Tamar