David,
Then pay attention to auxillary cursor usage in my post. That thechnique is flexible and you can have any filter and/or order.
Cetin

>Hi Everybody,
>
>Thanks for your generous help, which provide me with a lot of insight in how to solve my problem. In my particular case, the cursor has filter on hence it will take a bit more effort in implementing the highlight mechanism.
>
>David
>
>>>Hi, I know how to highlight alternative rows in a grid by using grid.dynamicforecolor and recno(), but I am scratching my head in how to highlight every other two rows in a grid, e.g. I need to highlight row 1&2, 5&6, 9&10, etc in the grid.
>>>
>>>Any suggustion? TIA
>>
>>with no filter, no deleted, no index
>>you can use recno()
>>
>>Then:
>>

>>CLEAR
>>? "1-1"
>>FOR RECNO=1 TO 10
>> ? RECNO,BITTEST((RECNO-1)/1,0)	&& or BITTEST(RECNO-1,0) or NOT BITTEST(RECNO,0)
>>NEXT
>>
>>? "2-2"
>>FOR RECNO=1 TO 10
>> ? RECNO,BITTEST((RECNO-1)/2,0)
>>NEXT
>>? "3-3"
>>FOR RECNO=1 TO 10
>> ? RECNO,BITTEST((RECNO-1)/3,0)
>>NEXT
>>

>>
>>with filter or deleted or index
>>the calculation is the same, but it needs to use the order position.