Evelyn

Without having to write the code for you, or looking too closely into your requirements, my initial suggestion would be to have separate sql selects for each condition, including a flag in your resultant cursor, set to .T. or .F., depending on the condition. The results all UNIONed, and this cursor is the record source of the grid.
The flag does not have to be displayed in the grid, but is used with DynamicFontBold to embolden or not each row.

e.g.

frmMyForm.grdGrid1.SetAll("DynamicFontBold", IIF( csrRes.YourFlag, .T., .F.), "Column")

HTH

Terry

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>i have table drs with description, author and date. and another table temp with userid, description, author and date.
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>i have a grid in my form with controlsource drs. i want rows to be bold if record in drs is not found in table temp. i should also check if userid in table temp is equal variable nuser. if it is not equal, row in grid with the same must be bold even if drs.description=temp.description, drs.author=temp.author and drs.date=temp.date.
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>how can i do this? pls help.