>>When I changed the HighlightRow to .F. I did away with the shift and since I am using DynamicBackColor to highlight the user can still tell the row that they are editing.
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>I didn't see much difference when I experimented with HightLightRow but I'll take another look.
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>Thanks, again.
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>Peter

I missed that. I have a grid with 5 columns and 4 of them contain custom controls (containers of textboxes) and the only column that continues to move when it gets focus is the one containing a single textbox. Setting HightLightRow to .F. has stopped it for all other controls. The striking difference that I see is a BorderStyle property for the textbox, Go figger. I will let you know if I find anything else here. No clue at present.