Hi guys, i am a beginner to all of this.

I have a transparent label over some cells with data. I need the
mousedown event of the label to capture the data underneath and copy
it to another cell. The data underneath the label is always changing
and the problem is it becomes obscured when i mousedown on it by the
backcolor of the label ( even though it is set to transparent).

i found something on a another post:

label1.parent.select

this line does stop the backcolor of the label appearing but does not
solve my problem because the _click event does not execute when i lift
the mouse.

so what i need is the mousedown to copy data somewhere. If the copied
data meets my needs i will release the mouse button over label1 and
the click event is executed. If the copied data is not suitable then i
drag my mouse away from the label and the click event is not executed.
At the moment i can do this no problem - but not without obscuring the
data that is always changing under label1!

thankyou very much for any help offered. I hope i explained things
clearly enough.