Michael,

That exact thing works great for me. For the column I have DynamicBackColor set to thisform.StageColor(recno("stackstages")) on the property sheet. Ans the form method looks like:

* this method provides the colored cells for the grdStages
* they match the colors of the pages from the stack ticket

lparameter pnRecno

do case
   case ( pnRecno = 1 )            && Yard
      return rgb( 255, 255, 255 )
   case ( pnRecno = 2 )            && Pre Dryer
      return rgb( 255, 255, 0 )
   case ( pnRecno = 3 )            && Kiln
      return rgb( 255, 128, 255 )
   case ( pnRecno = 4 )            && Cooling Shed
      return rgb( 255, 128, 0 )
   case ( pnRecno = 5 )            && Plant
      return rgb( 255, 255, 164 )
   otherwise
      return rgb( 192, 192, 192 )
endcase

>I have a grid I need to have many different row colors based on the value of a field. Easy enough using an IIF in the DynamicBackColor property. However, I need to check for about 15 different values. Obviously, I can't nest IIF's this deep. My next idea was to created a method in the grid class which returns the proper color, but this doesn't seem to work either.