>Thanks for the heads up. I did run into one problems though:
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>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:
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>		.Column8.Sparse = .F.
>		.Column8.optiongroup1.value = 1	
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>and also
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>.Column8.optiongroup1.option1.value = 1
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>only one row seems to be selected for the radio button. I would like all the rows to be selected with option "None"
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>thanks
>nick

First immediate idea - have this option group as a separate class with preselected Option 1. Additional advantages of this approach - you can easily add functionality if needed.

BTW, is this column bound? What field it is bound to?