>I was trying to use the IIF statement in the property box. When I took it out of there and put it in the refresh() of the grid it worked fine.

You should be able to use the Property Sheet. Also, you could put it in the Init() instead of the refresh(). It only needs to be set once... thats why its dynamic :-)

>I suppose the grid refresh() would need to refresh each object in the grid in order for that to work?

Um, I think it refreshes when it first shows automatically.

>Being that i learned programming in visual and never actually had to create objects via keyboard in code sometimes the documentation isn't clear.

Me too, but I like to create objects in code for some reason... especailly when giving examples like I just did :-)