Yeah, not much fun with views, then.

Just a question, have you looked up the DYNAMIC* prop of the column? Just like

suspend 
?thisform.grid.column1.DYNAMICBACKCOLOR

if the stuff is not working?

So, if this is empty, on the place you set the recordsource of the grid, just add something like

grid.SETALL("DYNAMICBACKCOLOR",lcDynamicStuff,'Column')

>Yes, I am referring to the alias of the view. This form has identical "blocks" of controls e.g. "Quote #1", "Quote #2", "Quote #3" etc. as the user can keep adding quotes. They use the same view with a different alias each time e.g. "QuoteHeader1", "QuoteHeader2" etc. ; it works fine except for this one small issue (that others have not even noticed but I have). After instantiating a new container - which contains the grid - then I set the record source of every control in code to the new alias. Once that is done, the cursor is placed in the first editing control within the container (not the grid) for them to input the name of the quote e.g. "Lifetime annuity at $200k").
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>Re CA's: this is a legacy application that I have been told to not make any "big" changes to it - so they are not going to pay me to switch to CA's - should have tried to get approval for that years ago but didn't.