ok, ive tried that and get an error, 'data type invalid for this property'

>You could make the .tooltiptext = .value
>
>>I know, is there a way to do that?
>>
>>>Ronald,
>>>
>>>The pane on the left of the HELP is a Treeview, which has that display behavior. A VFP grid does not have that behavior.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>In the VFP help, in the left window pane, when the text in that box is too long to display all of it, you can hold your mouse over it to display the rest. Is this something easy to do or allot of work? Just thought that it looked good and I have a grid that I would like to do that with as I dont have enough room to display it all.
>>>>
>>>>Thank for all your help
>>>>Ron