thanks Ed,

Ok...(I'm changing so many things in this form, I'm getting cross-eyed)

The grid is anchored and the in resize event I have [this.column1.Width=this.Width-20]

two things appear to happen (rather not happen)
1) the column.resize event does NOT fire (maybe got a bug?)
2) while the container does resize, the controls inside do not respect their anchor setting

Now if I programmatically change the individual control's values in the Grid.Resize event, they DO change
...but that's kinda crude. I'm thinking just setting the anchor values should do the trick

Bill