>Thanks, Ed. I created the grid from the forms toolbar; thought "rightclick on the grid, edit, rightclick on the column, properties" would take me where I wanted to go. I guess I'm getting into some more complicated devices than I anticipated and need to do some MSDN research.
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>Again, thanks for taking time out for me on a Saturday afternoon. Hope your weekend feels long! BTW, what is RTFM?

Read The Foxpro Manual (frequently, there's an alternative, generic substitute for Foxpro used, sounds sorta like 'Forking')

No need to do detailed research; VFP comes with OnLine Help; there's a Users Guide and Programmer's Reference that ought to be read in it. Adding a control either through Form Designer or programmatically are covered in there. I'd also recommend picking up some decent books that cover the general range of VFP programming - Whil Hentzen's "The Fundamentals" provides broad coverage of VFP, and makes it into the bathroom for reading materials more easily than the online help file.