>>I've always had labels behave strangely when Autosize was set to .T.. Can you humour me and try you old method with Autosize set to .F.?
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>I can't, because the caption of the label is passed by parameter to the form.
>So I can't know the length of the caption until run time.

Okay, well, set Autosize .T. on the init (after the text is stuck into the label) and then set Autosize .F....and then centre the label...

Joe