>This was my first solution. The problem was, I'm also setting DisableBackColor when a cell is disabled for visible feedback and this colors the whole column.

You can drop another textbox with enabled property = .F. on the desired column then interchange the two textbox based on your condition. Make it sure that the columns are sparse .f.

>
>>You can do it in the AFTERROWCOLCHANGE event of the grid.
>>

>>DO CASE
>>CASE record = 1 && sample condition only
>>    This.Column3.Enabled = .F.
>>    This.Column5.Enabled = .T.
>>CASE record = 2
>>    This.Column3.Enabled = .T.
>>    This.Column5.Enabled = .F.
>>OTHERWISE
>>    This.Column3.Enabled = .T.
>>    This.column5.Enabled = .T.
>>ENDCASE
>>

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