>>No. You have encountered what I consider to be a bug with grids, but some would call it "by design". When you yank a grid's recordsource out from under it while it is live, it sort of goes crazy, and forgets specific formatting information.
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>Erik,
>Thanks for the hint. I just empty the MyGrid.RecordSource before I populate it again, and so it works hundred-percent fine. What a relief!

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In file section, bwtable is an example on Run-Time replace grid cell control!
and there is a method to reset the column width as changing Recordsource will cause this problem!