I've skimmed through your thread and if I understand what you need I think I can help. I had trouble with grid column widths when the record source's cursor was requeryed and then assigned back to the record source. The columns, among other things, would get all botched up. What I did was create a grid class with a method in it that would allow you to load it's grid properties from a table. For example, the table would store grid column widths in it. In your forms init you call this method. The method reads in the column widths and assigns them to the grid. In your case you would be able to control your column widths this way.