Larry,

You're probably thinking of David Frankenbach's novel method of overlaying a grid with shapes to provide shading. It does worke well, and it is quite fast.
His website is http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle. There is a bunch of goodies there.

regards,


>I remember reading a message re: how to highlight the entire row in a grid (cleanly)
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>I believe it involved placing an invisible shape object over the grid, then ?????
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>can someone point me to that message please?
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>I have rows highlighting using dynamicbackcolor, etc but there's always one column of the selected row that is not colored (i.e. in "edit" mode)
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>TIA