>You can also create your own grid class that has the header code in place. >I created a grid with 25 columns (highly unlikely I'll ever exceed that) >and the header click method has what is needed to sort the column already >in place when I drop it on a form. > >Steve Just like I thought: you have to dimension it to some number in the class definition, because you can't have any default header class. If you could, you could define a grid class with just one column and at runtime just say thisform.grid1.columncount=7 and have all the headers behave as you defined in the class def. OK, it's just my old song...