>>All that had to be done when we switched sort expression order was to change the caption of two colums - strip the two leading characters of the caption for the old sort columns, and prefix the caption of the new sort column with the appropriate symbol and a space. I also switch the font of the column to italic to indicate that it's the sort column, making it easy and obvious. We use italic because the default for grids is to have the header boldfaced.
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>I guess I have it easy, since our default header font is non-bold, so the active sort can be denoted bold...probably one of our few good & wise decisions from the agency GUI Style team I was inducted into, since it resolved the bickering over what color the active header should be < g >

Actually, we arrived at the standard for header behavior because, by default, VFP sets the FontBold property for the base header class to true, and everyone got used to seeing them that way because that's how BROWSEs appear...