Ed,

it sounds like you change the recordsource of the grid like

*your query
.grid.recordsource = 'curSorName'

this will remove all columns and create new one. The newly created will know nothing about your preset.

consider the use of a CursorAdapter and bud the cursoradapter.alias to the grid.

Agnes
>Dear all,
>
>I have made a form with a grid on it and fixed all column width, but everytime I run the form with some query on data and programatically addressed the result query to be the grid recordsource, the columns width will change based on the fields length. Anyway to prevent this?
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>Thanks in advance.
>
>Ed