Thank you, Kevin. I might follow your approach.
>Hi, Dmitry,
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>Yes, that's correct...as the user navigates through the grid, the memo/edit box is refreshed each time.
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>I considered what you described (just showing the first 100 characters or so), but there were other columns we wanted to show in the grid instead, so it just made more sense for us to show one memo at a time
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>Kevin
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