I spoke too soon. What is the reason I cannot modify the caption from elsewhere in the form? Doing so has no effect.

>Scratch that last quest. prob solved.
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>>>Yes, I meant sleep hours, you're on other side of the globe.
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>>Ohh. Right now it's almost 2 AM here. It' because I am doing my job after office hours. So everyone has left the office, and I don't disturb their work.
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>>>However in my init and activate I have "thisform.colorlabel1.caption=mlog_nbr"
>>>but it has no effect, it still says "color label"
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>>Don't put it in "ThisForm.Init" event. The "ColorLabel" object has been created. Put it in the "ColorLabel1.Init" event directly. Put this code in "ColorLabel1.Init" event:
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>>This.Caption = 'Whatever...'
>>DoDefault()
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