Hi John

Thanks for responding.

>This is a common problem with VFP 6 grids on VFP 9. You just need to make each grid itself a touch wider. For some reason the columns are just a bit wider in VFP 9. We had to redo countless grids in our big managment apps.

Actually the problem seems to be (as I found out later) that I have the RowSource attached to the grid in the Init() of the form, till then the grids are created and have started using, all on their own, the underlying view used for the actual data-entry. See my response to Sergey.