Great! Rule number 1 when working with grids: If something behaves oddly, change the spares property. :-)

Yes, Aruba! After having run my own company for more than 30 years, I realized that I wasn't really running the company anymore, it was the company that ran me. I was caught in a circle which I was less and less comfortable with. So we had a few family meetings, and we decided to merge my company with a company I own with my eldest son, and where he is the boss. So essentially I made myself redundant, on purpose. But walking around at home became boring after a while, and I told my wife that my dream was to move to a paradise island, and program FoxPro. So you can understand that I grabbed the opportunity when I received a job offer from Aruba! And the rest is history, as they say, and here I am.

Unfortunately I won't be able to go to Phoenix this year, since my new employer has a few projects with a tight deadline. This means that you must find someone else to share a taxi with this year. But I really hope that I will attend next year's conference, provided that they will arrange one.

>FOUND IT!
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>it's the sparse property. must be false apparently
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>thankd for you input
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>Phoenix?
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>Peter
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>>This hits me in the back always also. The thing is that it's the values in the columns that are used in a grid, not those of the textboxes.
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>>>I have a grid with 5 columns
>>>the first 4 have the same txt control
>>>with this setting:
>>>

>>>
>>>	.COLUMNS[1].txt1.Forecolor=		RGB(0, 0, 255)
>>>	.COLUMNS[1].txt1.FontUnderLine=	.t.
>>>	.COLUMNS[1].txt1.BorderStyle=	0
>>>
>>>

>>>but when running (see jpg) columns 1 and 4 look differently from 2 and 3
>>>
>>>see 2nd jpg
>>>
>>>they all shoud be underlined and blue
>>>?????
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Peter