I just read your reply to Naomi and now I understand better. You can disregard my reply then. It would need to be slightly different. Since I don't know how many other "Y" values would be in other columns and such, it would hazardous to use what I posted.
Tim

>Hi Bill,
>
>>The code below sets the backcolor of the ColumnHasComments column to Red if the source data table record has "Y" in the hascomment field.
>>That works fine.
>>How would I set the backcolor of another column (ColumnSono) to Red for the same condition (hascomment = "Y")
>>
>>
>>

>> private void dataGridViewTrackingSearch_CellFormatting(object sender, DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs e)
>>     {
>>       if (dataGridViewTrackingSearch.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Name.Equals("ColumnHasComment"))
>>       {
>>         if (e.Value != null)
>>         {
>>          
>>           if (e.Value.ToString() == "Y")
>>           {
>>             e.CellStyle.BackColor = Color.Red;
>>             e.CellStyle.SelectionBackColor = Color.DarkRed;
>>           }
>>         }
>>       } 
>>     } // end CellFormatting
>>

>
>I may not be understanding your question so I appologize ahead of time. I would think you could just do something such as this.
>

>private void grdMembers_CellFormatting(object sender, DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs e)
>{
>     if (e.Value != null)
>     {
>          string colName = grdMembers.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Name;
>          if (e.Value.ToString() == "Y")
>          {
>               switch (colName)
>               {
>                    case "ColumnHasComment":
>                         e.CellStyle.BackColor = Color.Red;
>                         e.CellStyle.SelectionBackColor = Color.DarkRed;
>                         break;
>                    case "ColumnSono" :
>                         e.CellStyle.BackColor = Color.Blue;
>                         e.CellStyle.SelectionBackColor = Color.Beige;
>                         break;
>               }
>          }
>     }
>}
>

>Tim