Jim:

That doesn't seem to work, as far as I know and tested ActiveColumn is a property that holds the column number, so this.parent.myGrid.ActiveColumn.Name
returns a syntax error. Any other option?

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>Yeah, don't use the column number, use its name instead;
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>this.parent.myGrid.setfocus()
>lcColumn=this.parent.myGrid.ActiveColumn.Name
>loColumn=EVALUATE("this.parent.myGrid." + lcColumn)
>*--Now I have a reference to the column
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