They are visually disapearing - it's the actual object in the debugger (and by a Vartype() check) that was causing me problems
>Will:
>
>> I have ended up using your suggestion of the Columns collection which
>> works well(Although I did want to fix the original issue if the columns
>> not dissapearing)
>
>If they are not visually disappearing, try raising a Resize() event after
>removing one or more columns.
>
>Daniel
Will Jones