>You are right. I hadn't noticed that the textboxes weren't selecting on entry. I am breaking the info into a couple of columns with controls for multiple text boxes and labels but am not really happy yet with the truck scenario (currently 20 textboxes in a control) have you tried a grid in a grid? I am getting some funky results from that but havn't spent much time trying to sort that out yet.

What if you can have the container not in the grid, but over the grid? You probably can manipulate the backcolor of controls without using the grid.column.dynamicbackcolor, however it is more work.