>It's not a structural issue with a grid, it's the fact that a grid is awkward with the text heavy tables I'm working with....the grid...welll...to be frank, sucks for this type of table with memo fields, et al.
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I use to build grids for non-memo fields, and editboxes to the right of the grid for the curent record's memos. The trouble is, I have to refresh them in grid's AfterRowColWhatever. But it does work fine, once I set it up.