>Michelle,
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>>I'm not putting it in the property sheet. I'm putting it in the init of the grid.
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>That shouldn't matter, either place should work.
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>>That seems to me far more complicated than my IIF...
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>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.

OK, problems with my first attempt at putting it in a method. How do I refer to the current field of the grid from within the method?

Thanks,

-Michelle