Ed,

One comment-

While I agree with most of what you said, I think we need to provide this information to the user in some form. How many times have you clicked twice on the name header of WinExplorer to make sure it it was sorted and in the right order while looking for a file?

In my opinion, if one column is different than another there needs to be an indicator that shows this. It does not have to be an icon showing the direction of the sort order. Maybe a simple thing like .FontBold= .T. on the header showing the column is sorted.

Also, the other day I was working on a large table sorted by last name and I had to goto the 4th character to determine the sort order (challengeing for the user). This is when I decided to add .FontUnderline= .T. for descending order.

This solution is not pretty but it was VERY simple to implement AND requires little maintenance. I don't expect that I will settle with this in the long run but it moves me forward in my project...

...tim