>Thanks Dorin,
>but there is no Got and lost focus event of the grid only there is text1's on the grid .
>thats way ; must declare for each column.text1.gotfocus and lostfocus event that . so that it not seems pratically. Every time programmer must declare this setting for each column . Is there more easy way ?
>
>TIA

Unfortunately, the grid does not have a controlsource (pretty much everything else does), so put the table (or alias) name from the control's controlsource (the grid's recordsource) into the tag property. Then select:

(_Screen.ActiveForm.ActiveControl.Tag)

and do whatever.

Alan