>>>>Roland,
>>>>
>>>>In the grid's MouseMove put THIS.MousePointer = 1
>>>>In the columns' MouseMove put THIS.PARENT.MousePointer = 1
>>>>In the headers' MouseMove put THIS.PARENT.PARENT.MousePointer = 1
>>>>In the columns' controls MouseMove put THIS.MousePointer = 1
>>>>
>>>>Bill
>>>

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>>>This will set the mousepointer to arrow when you go over the column but don't reset it.
>>>I thought he only wanted it in one column
>>
>>He can put the code into any column/control/etc. he wants. He will get default behavior over any controls not containing the code.
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>Yes,
>but you forgot to reset it when you are not on the column.
>In the grids mousemove you can reset it and in all the columns other then the column with the read only data.
>Only in the column's mousemove evnet you need to set it.
>For the objects in the column you already can set it at design time.

You can, of course, set it any way you like, but the only place the mouse pointer will be affected by the design time settings is over the active cell. My experience has been that when it is ddesired the pointer to be an arrow over any specific row/column, you have to use something like the code I supplied. Any column the code is not in will operate according to the default settings made at design time or made programmatically at run time.