Michelle,

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

That shouldn't matter, either place should work.

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

I just prefer to edit code in a code window, it's easy to me to create a method even if the method was a one liner IIF() than to type a complex IIF() on the property sheet. Besides that case statement as a nested IIF() propbably would exceed the 255 char limit the property sheet imposes.