Thanks Nick and others I confirmed all your suggesstions and they are already taken care of. I'm trying to step thru the code to see what is happening. The form designer shows the form as we want it but at run time the caption does come up.

>>Is it possible to have a top level form (a splash screen) without a caption. The caption is blank and the related buttons are .F.
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>>What am I missing?
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>If this is version prior to VFP 6 where you can set
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>Caption property to ""
>ControlBox property to .F.
>MaxButton property to .F.
>MinButton property to .F.
>Movable property to .F.
>HalfHeightCaption caption to .F.
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>The property which is often overlooked (however rarely used) is HalfHeightCaption. If it is set to .T., even setting .TitleBar = .f. in VFP 6 will not remove the form's title bar.