Glenn,
Does the Grid have focus while you are doing this? If you are doing this from some other control's method then you are probably pulling focus back to that control and undoing the ActivateCell(). Have you tracked the event flow in the debugger's event logging?
>I am trying to activate a particular cell in a grid using:
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>oGrid.activatecell(nRow,nCol)
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>Immediately after setting the active cell the grid shows the wrong cell is selected! In fact if I code a debugout to see the activerow, activecolumn, the row is OK but the column is 1. I know that the column I am trying to set is valid. Any ideas?