Akhan

I'm aware of that, but I'm not doing anything with the RecordSource, just leaving it blank, I can see the code in the Resize() event whilst debugging and that is what's doing it, I just don't know why, or why it thinks the width is different etc.

Kev

>Kevin
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>When you open up the new form and when you the grid's recordsource, the exisiting columns are ripped and recreated based on grid's base class,that's why u loose the column width, the only solution is to go for parameter views.
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>HTH