Fred,
I don't believe that approach will work because she wants to set the row color based on a certain condition in the cursor that is the recordSource for her grid. In cases like these, I believe you need to use the dynamicbackcolor property of the grid columns to have one row red if the memo is not empty, and the one right next to it be white because the memo is empty.

>Then why not use yet a different approach:

>#DEFINE RED 255
>#DEFINE WHITE 16777215


>Control.ForeColor = RED
>Control.ForeColor = WHITE

>etc.

>This is probably the easiest to comprehend when looking at the code, too.