Jim,

That's what I thought too.. but VFP bloody well does trim the thing at 256 chars when set in the Init(). I even tried to see if SET MEMOWIDTH 1024 would have an effect but to no avail.

>Actually the rowsource property can be longer than 255 characters, I believe it has the same limit as any other character variable 2 gigabytes. It is the property sheet that has the limit and prevents you form entering more than 255 characters. If you were to assign the rowsource proeprty in the Init code for the grid it would probably just fine.