Hmmm...I'll try it again...maybe I just goofed....the only difference I see in what you did and what I did was I had the table in the DE of the form. I used grid baseclass and Builder to populate it (just for the test).

Thanks, David and Bruce.


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>VFP5a, make a form, drop a baseclass grid on it, in form Load open a table
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>while the form is running I can set the Grid1.Partion to any numeric value I want to move the splitter bar.
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>>I was trying to do a split grid yesterday and went to change the Partition property in the Grid to 2. No go. Anytime I tried to change it to a non-zero value I got the error "Expression evaluates to an illegal value"...hmmm....so I tried to do it in various events and methods and got the same error. I was using VFP5.0a....so I recompiled the form in VFP6. Same error. So I went home and tried it....same error.