>Thanks, I'll try the view and see how it goes.
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>Chad
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>>Use a view or SELECT statement ot order the records as you like and then use the methodology in the examples.

Another solution is to base the dynamic back color on the activerow property of the grid. If your grids are sortable (as opposed to just being presented in some fixed order) this is much faster the rebuilding views and source grids multiple time.

Because activerow refers to only one row, this does mean that when the user navigates via scroll bar, the colors will not refresh properly -- though keyboard navigation will refresh fine.

You might be able to properly refresh by adding some code to the scrolled event, but this may not be as easy as it seems.