Hi,
Thank you for your reply. However, i don understand the following step...can u explain more details.....how to place shape into grid??How to highlight the whole row when acticvated??

>put an white shape behid the grid (to prevent grey borders arround a textbox) >and use and shape with drawmode 13 to mark the active record (use the >relativerow along with the rowheight property to determine the exact vertical >position

Than you.