>>>>The cursor field is c(12), the longest possible string. But the entire column is underlined to length 12. The underline lengths appear slightly different because blanks don't get the same amount of underlining, I guess, but all cells less than len 12 have underlining longer than field, probably all 12.
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>>>>There's no mask or format, just ordinary text. The cursor's strings show the correct length, usually less than 12. I use column dynamicfontunderline after I fill the grid's recordsource from query, though I get the same result if I set underline .T. at design. I've tried with sparse t/f also, still same result. ???
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>>>try alltrim of controlsource for the column(s). that seems to work w/ the dynamicfontunderline...
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>>Yes, thanks, that works fine, and better than the format 'T' when focus is on the cell. Now if I can get the color change to show to show up when focus is on the cell, I'll be all set...
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>we still haven't managed that (haven't tried too hard, but...) color, text size, font, everything goes 'normal' when selected...

Just got that one...as you know,the dynamic/color doesn't work when focus is on (I wonder why not?), so I used the old-fashioned forecolor with a check in gotfocus, that does the trick...that may work for the other props, too...