Hi Bob
I had tried that, but it applies the back color to the entire column [I used THIS.col1.dynamicbackcolor = STR(RGB(0,255,0)) in the afterrowcolchange event ]. I want it to apply just to the left most cell in the row.

Barry.

>Hello Barry
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>You want to be using the DynamicBackColor property of the column to do that.
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>Bob
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>>I have a grid which displays orders (5 columns of information). I want to set up the grid so that when the user clicks on any row, the text box in the leftmost column of THAT row is immediately highlighted in a different colour - say RGB(0,255,0).
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>>I have tried setting the backcolor property of the appropriate textbox (mygrid.col1.text1.backcolor) to RGB(0,255,0) in the AfterRowCol change event and issuing a refresh on the textbox. But it only shows up as RGB(0,255,0) when the user clicks on the cell.
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>>Is it possible to get the cell to show the appropriate colour without clicking on it?
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>>Thanks for any advice
>>Barry