>Click on Column1, click the form's title bar and then drag the control that >you want for the column onto Column1. Repeat this until you have all the >controls in place for all of your columns. Click File from the menu, >select Save As Class... You now have a custom grid class subclassed from >another grid. > >Steve Despres So it's about six clicks per textbox, just to remove it and replace it with a different control, for every grid I make. Wasn't OOP intended to group such repetitive jobs into classes, where they get solved once for good? I can only repeat what I've said in the other reply in this thread.