To be honest, I am not sure whether the columns will get the width automatically or not. But anyway, if you set the width in the property sheet and you are sure that you don't change the controlsource, then the width shouldn't change all by itself.

>Now, in order to finish with this: Are you saying that correct size of the columns will be shown ONLY if data comes from a cursor ? Right ?
>(I know that using a table as a source is not nice anyways...but I thought there might be a way around).
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>If that's the answer then consider this DONE.
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>Molto grazie per la vostra collaborazione.
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>-gl