I played a little with the controls in the grid and found a solution for this. Just set the backstyle property of the textbox to 0 (transparent).

Enmanuel

>I have the following:
>
>

>*-- Grid properties
>Highlightrow=.t.
>Highlightstyle=2  && Current row highlighting enabled with visual persistance
>

>
>There's a numeric field displayed in the grid with the following sets:
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>*--- Column properties
>sparse=.f.
>
>*--- Textbox properties
>Inputmask=99,999,999.99
>Format =R
>

>
>The problem is when I run the form the backcolor of the column with the numeric field changes in the selected row. What am I missing here?
>
>Enmanuel