>Adam,
>
>I had tried that. The problem with setting SPARSE to False is that
>if you have other properties for the textbox control, such as the backcolor being yellow (in order to have the currently selected record standing out),
>then thhe whole column takes that property and you end up with a
>whole column of yellow entries rather than just the one selected by the
>end-user.
>
>Any other suggestions ?

thisgrid.setall("left",0.5,"textbox")

"thisgrid" stands for whatever your grid's name is. You may try to set the margin instead.