>>>I'm using VFP8, but I do remember I was having the same problem with VFP9. I just was unable to find that thread of mine.
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>>>Also see my other message today on a similar problem (Re: A nasty limitation on the VFP native grid or is it me? Thread #1158526 Message #1242866).
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>>Try this, like I did:
>>Create form testing
>>Add a few command buttons or labels, to make sure that the grid will not receive focus when the form is run
>>Add a table to the data environment
>>Click the table, and drag it to the testing form, to create a grid
>>Change the inputmask of a column which will show numeric data into 999,999,999.99
>>Change the highlightstyle to 2
>>Run the form. Works for me...
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>I just did and I see both problems specified (VFP8). Don't forget to set sparse to .f.
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>UPDATE. But it looks like it work correctly with SPARSE = .t. (default). Let me re-test.

Regarding sparse, I obviously had a bad moment. Sparse must be .t., which sounds reasonable. I don't use VFP8 anymore, but I have it installed, so I tested it and it also worked fine.