>I have a grid with about 11 columns that I just set the recordsource on the whole grid and let it show all columns from the alias.
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>Now, I want to "hide" columns 8,9, and 10.
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>When I set those columns widths to 0, I get this ugly thick line that is from the column being collapsed.
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>How can I address this?
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>I tried setting column.Visible=.f., but that just moves column 11 to the place of column 8, and the column 8 data still shows up.
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>I want 1 - 7 and 11, but without hand-coding the controlsource of each column, hopefully.

Have you reorder the columns ?

On this case you cannot use columnIndex:

Grid.ColumnName.Visible = .F.
....

* or
FOR EACH cl IN grid.columns
  IF INLIST(m.cl.ColumnOrder,8,9,10)
      cl.Visible = .F.
      EXIT
  ENDIF
NEXT