Yeah...figured it was something like that (been in that position myself). I'm not familiar with that grid but I would suggest diving into the docs and investigating all the available properties. I got burned a couple of times writting some monsterous code only to later find out that I could have just set the appropriate (although completely misleadingly named) property.

Barring that, essentially, you'r dilema stems from that fact that "read-only" means that they can and should be able to move around inside the cell and (ie. there may be text scrolled off to the left...). So in order to facilitate that a cursor is presented so that you know "where you are" inside that control....you just can't change anything. I'd be surprised if you could actually get rid of it entirely but you should be able to change it to something less intrusive...check out what's available from intelli-sense. I'll take a look as well, but I gotta think it shouldn't be any harder that setting the cursor to the wait cursor......but just specifying a different icon to use (maybe a simple underline....).

Scott