Is there any way to disable the incorporated "hover" properties for command buttons?

[JMongi]

If I take your uploaded database, and set the form background to Red as you have suggested, and then hover over the buttons - I do see a red flicker as my mouse enters the airspace above the button - literally right then only. Not persistent while hover, but a momentary flicker as I enter the button's airspace. Is that what you're talking about?

If so, I definitely see what you mean. There is no reason the red should show, as per my expectation.

Yes, that is it exactly. Thank you for the more precise description! It goes away completely if you remove the form background image. No issues whatsoever (that I could see anyway).

 

[JMongi]

I remember reading somewhere that sometimes Access makes strange choices like repainting an entire form due to a change in one control. I wonder if there is a way to block one part while allowing another. Curiouser and curiouser....

 

[Isaac]

i suppose you set the background to a light blue and it will near-go away, visually speaking

 

[JMongi]

Hmm...I suppose that's not a bad compromise. The eye still catches it on the forecolors for the text because they are involved too somehow. I doubt there is an effective workaround without unpacking a whole lot of behind the scenes access workings. Reducing the file size of the image seems to have helped lessen the duration in my purely subjective view. (Before was brighter red for a little longer...imo).

This all came from the fact that I like the gradient look a lot better than the big block of blue I started with. So I created the background image to get the gradient look.