"I see!" said the blind man....

Now I found out how to do it, I think. (I hope... I pray... LOL)

When I read Michelle's response, I wondered how she expected me to put code in a VALID method that didn't friggin' exist. HOWEVER, when I clicked on the name of my grid at the top of the PROPERTIES box, I noticed a TEXT1 line, so I selected it. VOILA! The missing VALID event is there. Yahoo!!! (I hope that isn't a trademarked yell for the people at Yahoo! now...)

Here's part of my basic grid layout:
grdRiskRecs - grid object
colGLAcct - column
hdrAcct - column header
Text1 - this is where the VALID event is but your mouse won't find it
colDebit
hdrDebit
Text1

Thanks for the help. Once again, the UT is one hell of a good resource for all things FP and VFP.

As for MS, it's kinda stupid that we can use the mouse to edit some of the innards of a grid, but can't use the mouse to get all the way into the object we're working with. And I thought "I" was brain dead at times... heh-heh

- Gerry

>I'd probably write a new form method for selective column validation. I'd put a call to this method in the AfterRowColChange event and pass it the grid's ActiveColumn. Then in a case statement inside of the method code, you could selectively validate the column info.
>
>HTH