Fabio,

Thanks for the suggestion. For whatever reason, I already had the column Sparse setting as false. When I changed it back to true then it looked fine.

Jon

I>>I have a grid that has a row height of 19 and one of the columns has an alignment of Middle Left.
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>>When the form first loads, the text in this column is being aligned top left. When I click on the cell, it then changes to middle left. Any ideas as to how the alignment can show up properly from the start?
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>>Jon
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>try column.Sparse = .F.