>>I think Dragan is referring to programmatically calculating an appropriate value for the column's width and then setting it to the new value like so:
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>"Thisform.Grid1.Columns(1).Width = nSomeValue"
>yes that did it, Not sure why I had to do this though.


Fox is taking its best guess at what the contents of the column will be, based on the first record available when the grid is built. If you're having a calculated value there, you get what VFP thinks is enough. You may help it with surrounding the expression for the controlsource of 6th column with padr(expression, nn) where nn is any number you find sufficient. Whenever Fox needs to measure the width of something, preformatting helps.