Thanks David,

I rediscovered the first part earlier... I appreciate the code snippet and will incorporate it into that and similar sections. :-)

>Ashley,
>
>Items created with AddObject have .Visible set .F. so you can finish setting properties likt .Top and .Left before you make it visible.
>
>Here's a little optimization of your code you might want to look at:
>
>

for x = 1 to this.grdPatCells.ColumnCount
>   loCol = this.grdPatCella.Columns[x]
>   with loCol
>      .Width = 40
>      .Header1.Caption=field(x)
>      ...
>   endwith
>endfor

>if you have VFP5 it can be simplified even more
>
>

foreach loCol in this.grdPatCells.Columns
>   with loCol
>      .Width = 40
>      .Header1.Caption=field(x)
>      ...
>   endwith
>endfor

>