>>I'm leaning towards adding up the widths of each column but that is still a long way short of the actual width.
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>What do you mean by absolute width? I would think the width of all the columns are it.

That's what I want, but it is a messy calculation to get there (adding the columns plus 12 for each column - doesn't seem safe to me). I was wondering if there was a property on the grid that contained the correct value for this.