Thanks for the heads up. I did run into one problems though:

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/3857/gridlm5.jpg

how do you set all the option1 buttons in optiongroup1 to default with value one for the entire grid. I tried the following but it didn't work:

		.Column8.Sparse = .F.
		.Column8.optiongroup1.value = 1	
                

and also

.Column8.optiongroup1.option1.value = 1

only one row seems to be selected for the radio button. I would like all the rows to be selected with option "None"

thanks
nick