>Hugo,
>
>Thank you for your reply. I hope you don't mind me asking a follow up question. It sounds like your
>solution turns the whole column one color or another based on the value. Am I wrong in this
>assumption? The reason I ask is that my initial explanation of my goal may not have been clear.
>
>What I need to be able to do is have row 1, column 1 be one color and row 2 column 1 be a
>different color. Following is an example of what I need. I will use B for blue, G for Green, and R for red.
>
> col1 col2 col3 col4
>
>row 1 R B R G
>row 2 B B G R
>row 3 G G B B
>
>I hope this makes it more clear. If you response takes care of this just say so and I'll give it a try.
>If not, any other ideas would be appreciated.

You can just change the getColor function to whatever you want, as complex as you want it to be, of course with an eye on performance. My getColor example is very rudimentary for I just trying to show you one way of doing this, and about running the code, just copy it to a foxpro editor, select the text and chose run, you can see what it does, and play with getColor to get more colors for each column if you want