>>>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

Backstyle doesn't help. I guess, I have to use DynamicBackColor as Dawa suggested.