thanks Erick but I was wondering if there was a direct function or property
to do it.
:-)

>Hi Alessio,
>
>>In a Grid object I can reference each columns by their idx number, what i was asking to myself is : how can I retrieve this number from a column ?
>>I found properties like columnorder but it could change.
>>Thanks
>>Alessio
>
>Try this function:
>

>Function numberCol(toGrid as Grid, toColumn as Column) as Number
>	LOCAL lnCol as Number
>
>	FOR lnCol = 1 TO toGrid.ColumnCount
>		IF toGrid.Columns(lnCol).Name = toColumn.Name
>			RETURN lnCol
>		ENDIF
>	ENDFOR
>
>	RETURN 0
>EndFunc
>

>Good luck!