Yeah Will,
If I needed it myself probably would get a longer route and create a method that would copy 'visible portion' to an array. That way some simple math or gridhittest might return array pos to me :)
Cetin

>Cetin,
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>Yes you are quite right.. my technique only gets the column.. looks like the grid will need to receive focus to make this work.
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>I think a combination of the textbox mousemove and a click transparent shape to set focus to the grid will do the trick
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>Not exactly simple though is it? :)
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