Thanks Sergey. I was doing all that except clicking on the title bar once the object was selected. Yep, that worked.

BTW, any idea why I'd get that error when the cbx was not the currentcontrol?

Cheers

Terry

>See Re: Removing extra controls in column Message #591843
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>>It's well understood how to place a checkbox or some such in a grid, to replace the std. textbox, and then set CurrentConttrol to the new control.
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>>However, my problem is I put a checkbox in a column by mistake and the controlsource is text. Despite the fact that the currentcontrol is still "Text1" I'm getting Data Type M-M errors. So I want to get rid of the chkbx but I can't figure how to remove it. Any ideas?
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>>'ppreciate it
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>>Terry