>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>

#define	_ASC_	'^ '
>>>#define	_DESC_	'v '
>>>

>>
>>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.
>
>Hi Nadya,
>
>I find too many colours distracting. Colours are meant to catch your attention. If there are too many it starts to look like a Christmas tree.
>The only time I use a colour in the headers caption is when there is a active filter on that column. And even then I use a soft colour rgb(255,255,128). But then, that's my opinion. There are as many tastes as there are people I guess.
>
>Cheers,

Yes, I agree. Gordon's implementation reminds me a rainbow, but everything depends on users... They may like these colors...

Anyway, luckily all these problems will go away with the new version of VFP.