>>Simple is nice. I took your advise, Green for ascending, Red for Descending, Dark Gray for index not used and white for no index available.
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>>Thanks!
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>If you want to avoid the colours. I set the header's caption Italic if a column has an index. If the column is sortet I set the font in the header to bold. To indicate the sort order I prepend the caption with a string as follows
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#define	_ASC_	'^ '
>#define	_DESC_	'v '
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It's good that we would be able to do in the new version of VFP. All other solutions would be considered as kludge. I personally like the colors I use (red and a different kind of red for descending), but somebody may find these colors not appealing.