Lil Ms Squirrel, i have done that several times but i could only change the forecolor and backcolor of a total column. i have never got to control a single cell property. why?? because ,

when you override the paint method it is easy to color a column according to it's index ( ordinal no. ) but with specific cells it is very hard as i don't know how much rows are there in the grid nor do i know if the user have arranged them by clicking any column headers. moreover if i have several cells to be painted in different locations. how can i select them without changing the color of the other cells in the grid

that is the question

Thx in advance

RGDS