Hi Terry,

You may be able to achieve the desired effect by pasting an edit box into the grid column for the memo field. In the properities dialogue for the column make the edit box the current control. make sure the edit box is bound to the memo field specified in the control source of the grid. You could even size the edit box using the gotfocus and lostfocus events. Just increase the width property for the column in the gotfocus event and decease the column width property in the lostfocus event something like the following:

thisform.grid1.column5.width=250

When the edit box has more text than can be displayed you can use the edit box scroll bar to move up and down the edit box to access the text.

Good Luck.