>>I have a standard grid on a form. When the form is run, the grid appears with the column showing data as expected. If I then drag a column out of its initial location, how do I get an object reference to that column? In particular, I want to get to its controlsource.
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>>I've tried using the grid's activecolumn property but that doesn't work for me. For example, if I drag column5 to be in position 2 (measured relative to the left edge of the grid), ActiveColumn returns 2. What property (if any) could I use to return 5 or something that would indicate that column2 started out as column5?
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>>TIA
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>Mike,
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>You have to loop through the columns and find which one has ColumnOrder == ActiveColumn
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>Something like
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>local n
>n = -1  && none
>with m.this
>   for i = 1 to .ColumnCount
>      if( .Columns[m.i].ColumnOrder == .ActiveColumn )
>        n = m.i
>        exit
>      endif
>   endfor
>
>endwith
>return m.n
>

Thanks Gregory. That's exactly what I needed.

Edward and Naomi, thank you for your input too.