>It's FoxPro that should be enough to explain why it doesn't work the way you expect. *LOL*

True, but usually it's not so quiet when I make a glaring error. :)

>>It makes me wonder if the dynamicforecolor is actually getting set to anything. I filled in the parens, and it still doesn't work.
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>I refuse to write complex code in a little cell on the property sheet. The only time I've used Dynamic*Color in an app my grid column has DynamicBackColor set to thisform.StageColor(recno("stackstages"))

I'm not putting it in the property sheet. I'm putting it in the init of the grid.

>The method code then just returns the appropriate rgb() value like this:

(Code snipped)

That seems to me far more complicated than my IIF...

Thanks,

-Michelle