>>>Tamar,
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>>>What you did does work for me too. But that is not the issue I was having trouble with.
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>>>My problem is with the "Menu" Item color and the "Font" Color. They simply refuse to work for me in Office 2000 (Word, Excel, Outlook) menus.
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>>>Can you (or anyone else) verify that I am not going nuts here? I'm using Office 2000 and Windows 2000 Pro.
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>>Okay, now I see what you see. Looks like a bug to me. Anybody want to check whether it's fixed in a later version of Office.
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>I chose a gaudy lime green, Tamar, and tested a little (about as long as I could stand that color :-)
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>But it doesn't seem to work on Office XP with XP Pro, either...though it shows up in some apps fine, like vfp.
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>Could be a bug, indeed.

Did you notice that the menus in Office XP really arent the same as VFP. When you select a menu in OXP, it drops down what looks kind of like a Page tab surrounding the menu pad with the "tab", and the menu itself like a "page". A wee bit different then VFP and other apps, like IE.