The menu of available colors is also a tool window. You need to create this kind of customized toolbar which has a list of menu. (If not necessary, better use color Dialog Box) Call ShowControlBar(&m_colorToolBar, TRUE, FALSE); in your toolbar buttn click event handler. //m_colorToolBar should be of CToolBar Type. This will show your color toolbar. Now on each button(better to create colored button dynamically) click event handler, call ShowControlBar(&m_colorToolBar, FALSE, FALSE); at the end of the handler. Anurag Gandhi Bangalore, India.

BarnaKol wrote: But how do I display this border. The thing is that then should I have to write sepearte code to draw a border? When I searched for answers on this, I got the impression that it was added for version 2 of the RichEdit control but not implemented. The paragraph border settings are in the text but the control doesn't draw them. Somehow I assumed they would be drawn in later versions of the control but that is not the case, as you've seen. I'm on XP SP2 so my RichEdit control should be version 4+. I guess the control has all the features of Word these days, but we can't use them. We have to use Word :^) Mark "Posting a VB.NET question in the C++ forum will end in tears." Chris Maunder