>Hilmar
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>If I set tooltiptext to manigrid.delivery thats what I get
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>If I set tooltiptext to &manigrid.delivery I get variable Paris not found - Paris is the cirrect answer but why varialbe not found?

Then, I think you must use it without the macro substitution.

But not:

...Column1.Text1.ToolTipText = "manigrid.delivery"

rather:

...Column1.Text1.ToolTipText = manigrid.delivery

That is, without the quotation marks.

>The other problem is that tooltips will show wherever the mouse is used on the grid so each column's text would have to be set

Yes, that was my idea: set it for each column. (Or at least, for those columns which you are forced to make narrower than the usual contents.) I don't know of a way to automate this, but you might put it in your base classes: if the TextBox is in a grid, then change the ToolTipText.

I am just thinking about another problem, which may make the approach completely impractical. You can see several rows on the screen, but this method will only show you the contents of the current row. Perhaps you find a way to get information for other rows.

Even to show the current row, you will have to update the ToolTipText regularly, as I explained before. But this part should not be too difficult.