Thanks Sergey for responding. I wanted to avoid sparse (some mental block I have <g>). I put SET NULLDISPLAY in the activate and reset it in the deactivate and I got the result I wanted. Thanks

>>Hi all
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>>Recently I got a great suggestion that I can supress NULL from displaying using NullDisplay in textboxes etc. Now I have this same textbox class in a grid column, so when the textbox gets the focus the NULL disappears as I want it to but loose focus and the column starts displaying the NULL
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>>There is no AFAIK NullDisplay in the column.
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>>Please Advise.
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>Did you try to set column's Sparse=.F. and/or SET NULLDISPLAY Command?