Which version of VFP do you use? I believe XP themes support was introduced in VFP8.

>Thanks for your suggestion. I did have a theme set on the win98 machine which resolved the problem when I reset the theme colors to windows default. But it does not explain why one page came up with a different color than the others.
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>I did discover however that the backcolor property in the designer changes with the theme. For example, if you set the backcolor to 192,192,192 as I did and then save and close, then change the theme and reopen, the backcolor will come up different.
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>I was not able to find themes in either foxhelp or winhelp.