>In my form's keypress, I want to perform an action if the user hits F1. But the vfp help keeps arising and I do not want to use the "on key label" as that forces me to execute a prg.

Timothy,

You can read up about this stuff under CLEAR MACROS and SET FUNCTION in the help file. Those entries should help you to unset the F1 for help so you can use it for something else.