Hi
I thought I had tried that, but will re-check.
On re-checking .
The allignment is set at designtime to centre and it does not display text; if I change in runtime to leftalign, it becomes visisble; if i set in runtime to centre or right it vanishes.
length of richmemo is set to 15; just in case this was causing a problem, richmemo lines is set just as Test 123; and no extra linefeeds.
Josh