Then go with the colors. VisualFoxExpress used green header background for ascending sort, and red for descending (at least in VFP7). So, you wouldn't be inventing anything out-of-line here.

>But surely there IS no header picture prop. in V7?
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>>There's really no way you can have a special character in the header, because the special characters belong to a different font, with a different script, and you can't have two fonts in the same header.caption. So, the .picture is the way.