>Bah! Thank you! :-) Gotta love how there are more then one set of properties that should theoretically do the same thing.

You're welcome Ben. I wonder if some of the DataGridView properties have anything to do with the properties that were originally DataGrid properties carried over to the DataGridView, but then they decided to implement differently (or not at all) for DatGridView. I don't know if that's true or not, just wondering out loud. <g>

~~Bonnie


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>>>That would defeat the purpose. Without it, the grid is not formatted as I need.
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>>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