This sort of works for me, but what happens is if a cell is null, it does not highlight. Basically my report looks like this date part1 part2 part3 11/16/06 1 1 3 11/17/06 2 1 2 11/18/06 1 I am passing in a boolean of true if the date is a weekend and if so fill the background color to yellow (I want to highlight the row), so the 11/18 date would be highlighted. It will only fill in the cell of part2 because it has data, part1 and part3 stay white. Is there a way to solve this? Also, I tried to put a rectangle into the date header (so that 11/18/06 would be highlighted) but it overlaps the actual date, I can't send element to back. Any ideas?