>Thank Al, but it didn't help.
>If I click into the textbox, all the rows in that column realign themselves properly. I'm thinking a workaround is to setfocus and remove focus on initialization, but that's not my preference for all the columns in my grid.
>Hasn't anyone notice this before? I haven't seen any threads about it in my searches.
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>>>If I set columns in a grid to sparse=.f. (textbox controls in each column), the alignment shifts upwards on some columns. To better explain it...the row will not uniformly align on the same line/row. The columns with characters will be skewed higher than the columns with integers/numerics.
>>>Is there a way to fix that behavior? Is that a bug?
>>>(I like the grid highlighting look with sparse set to false, so I'd like to fix it without change sparse back to .t.)
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>>For a textbox in a column, try setting .SpecialEffect to 1 - Plain from the default 0 - 3D.

Hi Allen,

I have seen this unusual grid formatting behavior when I use SQL Passthru query cursors. I always assumed it was because the cursor contents weren't created via Fox DBFs or Cursors and therefore Fox wasn't certain on the formatting. I haven't figured out a working solution yet. Sorry I can't be more help.