Yuri,

Thanks for trying to help. Your code will keep appending the counter 'j' to the caption. This is not my problem. The problem I'm having, is that the label's caption does NOT change within the executing loop.

Any other ideas.

Mike

>
>with thisform.label1
>.Caption =""
>FOR j = 1 TO 100000
> .Caption = .Caption +TRANSFORM(j)
>ENDFOR