>>Hi Nadya,
>>
>>This should work:
>>

>>myform.mygrid.column1.Sparse=.f.
>>myform.mygrid.column1.text1.Century = 0
>>

>
>Dawa,
>
>I was happy with the solution, but my manager noticed, that these two columns are not shown in blue color, e.g. highlight doesn't work. I seem to recall some problem with native VFP highlight implementation and sparse = .f. Am I out of luck or there is a simple solution?
>
>Thanks in advance.

Hi Nadya,

highlight support only Column cell.

The solution is set textbox.BackStyle = 0 transparent ( then you see the cell color ),
but a textbox's bug exists.
Pratically highlight is unusable.

Fabio