>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.

Not ideal, I know, but following on from Jim's suggestion, would it be acceptable to check for another value in keypress, eg ctrl+alt+shift+f1 ?

If so, try :

ON KEY LABEL F1 KEYBOARD '{CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F1}'