Thanks Kevin

That may help. It is at least a very straight forward example.
Thanks
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>Michael,
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>Jeez...and I thought I was the wordiest guy on the planet!
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>I may be mis-reading your question, and if I have, I apologize, but here's a very simple code sample for customizing the display of a grid for specific # of columns.
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>This is based on a datatable, so I don't know if it applies to what you're doing, but here it is...
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>dataGridEmployees.DataSource = DsEmployeeHeaders.Tables[0];
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>DataGridTableStyle style = new DataGridTableStyle();
>style.MappingName = "EmployeeResults";
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>DataGridTextBoxColumn fld1 = new DataGridTextBoxColumn();
>fld1.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
>fld1.HeaderText = "First Name";
>fld1.MappingName = "FirstName";
>fld1.ReadOnly = true;
>fld1.Width = 85;
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>DataGridTextBoxColumn fld2 = new DataGridTextBoxColumn();
>fld2.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
>fld2.HeaderText = "Last Name";
>fld2.MappingName = "lastname";
>fld2.ReadOnly = true;
>fld2.Width = 85;
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>DataGridTextBoxColumn fld3 = new DataGridTextBoxColumn();
>fld3.Alignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
>fld3.HeaderText = "Address";
>fld3.MappingName = "Address1";
>fld3.ReadOnly = true;
>fld3.Width = 180;
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>style.GridColumnStyles.AddRange(new DataGridColumnStyle[] {fld1, fld2, fld3});
>style.PreferredRowHeight = 20;
>style.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(255,255,255);
>style.AlternatingBackColor = Color.FromArgb(234,239,251);
>style.SelectionBackColor = Color.FromArgb(118, 149, 222);
>dataGridEmployees.TableStyles.Clear();
>dataGridEmployees.TableStyles.Add(style);
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>dataGridEmployees.DataSource = DsEmployeeHeaders.Tables[0];
>DsEmployeeHeaders.Tables[0].DefaultView.AllowNew = false;
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>Does that help?
>
>Kevin