Thanks Ryan, I knew there had to be a simple solution. Doing this and setting label backstyle to Opaque solved the problem.

John

>Set the label's Style property to "3 - Themed".
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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?