Bah! Thank you! :-) Gotta love how there are more then one set of properties that should theoretically do the same thing.
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>That would defeat the purpose. Without it, the grid is not formatted as I need.>
>Yeah, you're right ... sorry, I don't use the DGV all that much.
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>But, I looked into it and you're using the wrong property to set the style. Try the DefaultCellStyle.Format instead:
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>this.dataGridView1.Columns["DOB"].DefaultCellStyle.Format = "MM/dd/yyyy";
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>~~Bonnie
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