By default, the item's ForeColor property is -1, which indicates that no foreground color is applied. The ForeColor property specifies the item's foreground color.  Use the BackColor property to change the item's background color. The SelBackColor / SelForeColor property retrieves or sets a value that indicates the selection background / foreground color. You can use the <bgcolor> / <fgcolor> HTML tags in cell's Value property to display the text of the cell with different colors.