> When I highlight a field in a grid, the data changes fonts > and gets bigger. any ideas what is happening. thanks 1) Ensure that you have no border on the textbox that is bound to the column. 2) thiscolumn.sparse = .f. As you move through the fields, there will still be an appearance change, but it'll be smaller. I've got things set up so that the impact is a single line border appearing around the current cell, and I've not been able to get rid of that. /Paul