I'll ask the obvious question - have you tried a different font name or
size? Btw, I see no change in the appearance of Tahoma font text on a
command button placed on a worksheet when switching into and out of design
mode.

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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
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| We have a newly built Windows 2000 machine with Excel 2003 installed.
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| When a CommandButton is added to a worksheet from the Control Toolbox and
we
| are not in design mode (so running the worksheet). The font of the caption
| for the commandbutton is illegible but when the button is the active
control
| the font is correctly displayed and when we loose focus again it become
| illegible. (The font in use is Tahoma).
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| Does anyone have any suggestions as to the cause or the solution.
|
| Thanks,
|