Thanks Jason--not sure I phrased the question properly.

Here's the sitch: I have code in a text box in column five and I want to copy the control from column five to column three without losing the code in the text box.

>Bind the column in the grid to the control source. Then you can put whatever control(s) you like in the column and they will be bound to the same data source. The bind property in the column must also be set.
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>I don't use the data environment, and programatically bind my grids to their data sources during their init method. This has served to remove problems that were coming up with columns getting confused.
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>Regards,
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>Jason