PMFJI, and this is OT, however I use your cusWord class for mail merge and I'm wondering two things: 1) when printing does VFP wait for Word to complete the task or does it go on (like after the MailMerge.Execute command?) and therefore cause a potential locking issue if it tries to update the data source that Word is still using and 2) are you aware that the OpenDataSource command is no longer necessary in Word versions 10 and above?

>Marcia's way can't let you customize your grid at design time. write that class as .prg file and add your grid as memberclass:
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>If you had read my reply, you would see that I did suggest writing a class:
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>However, you can also do this at design time using the ADD OBJECT clause of the DEFINE CLASS command in the class definition of your custom column class.
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>Thank you so much for providing the example of how to do so < s >