You see, it's never easy making things work the way you want

I don't exactly know why because I have a bitmap which is about 16x16 and contains the "standard" background colour of a button with a black down arrow in it. So it looks more or less like the combo box bitmap.

With no command button caption and with the command button style property set to 1 (Graphical) I can see it fine.

Of course, users with different system colours on their machine will note that you have hard coded the colours of this control. There is no easy way around this unfortunately because VB doesn't support the transparent colour for bitmaps being placed onto buttons (as far as I know)

But if you can live with the odd complaint about the button being grey when the user has "Flouro Pink" as their colour choice...then go for it.

I can mail you my bitmaps if you want them. I just captured them from the VB ones

Cheers
Paul Lewis