It should work as long as the fciscomm memo field belongs to the same table as grid's record source.

>That does not work. I have a form method that does the work of setting the grid properties and its called in the form init after i populate a cursor.
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>I also put the code in the form's ACTIVATE method along w/ a REFRESH call to the grid and the caption on all of the command buttons are black, regardless if data is there or not.
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>am using:
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>SELECT tmpfcis
>thisform.grdbase.column32.dynamicforecolor = 'IIF( EMPTY(tmpfcis.fciscomm), RGB(0,0,0), RGB(0,0,255) ) '
>thisform.grdbase.Refresh()
>

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>>There should be no quotes around RGB()

>>.column32.dynamicforecolor = 'IIF( EMPTY(tmpfcis.fciscomm), RGB(0,0,0), RGB(0,0,255) ) '

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