Thanks Sergey, I had thought of that and experminted, it was a pain getting the exact color match and I wonder if it would appear the same on everyone's monitor. Also if someone had a different XP theme would it no longer match?

>Hi John,
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>You can leave BackStyle as opaque and change label backcolor to match page backcolor.
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>>If one goes to the Tools - Options menu in VFP and looks, for example, under the general tab the - "Warning Sound" label appears neatly over the border of the optiongroup within the page frame.
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>>How does one mimic this behavior in VFP8? If I set the backstyle of the label to opaque on a pageframe the back color of the label does not match the color of the pageframe, this doesn't look right. If I set the backstlye property of the label to transparent then one can see the line going through the label, this looks funny too. I'm hoping there is a very basic solution I am overlooking.
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>>Any ideas greatly appreciated.