I also had this behaviour when I changed the format property of the control displayed in the column. Do you have a format property set to something like "99,999.99"? That might be the problem. I also had the sparse property set to false.

Enmanuel

>I just tried the gridhighlight feature that was added in VFP8. It works fine for a simple grid display of a table or cursor, but...
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>I have several grids that use the dynamiccurrentcontrol property to chooses between "text1" or "text2" based on a certain criteria. On this column, the highlighting does not work properly. In order to get the proper highlihgbackcolor, I have to set the textbox's backstyle property to transparent, which this is not required on the other thextboxes in other columns that do not use the dynamiccurrentcontrol property. And, I can never get the hightlightforecolor to work at all, it is always black.
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>These are just standard textboxes, not sub-classed ones. What gives?