Sergio,
Thanks, that's a good idea. I immediately discovered another fix that works too. Since I'm feeding the beast from a table with allt(field), I get variable length data, of course, and that is the problem. LEFTing the field to fix the length looks fine.

It's funny how often I see the obvious solution only after I've given up and publicly proclaimed my ignorance to the world! Thanks again.

Gary

>Gary,
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>The ColumnWidths Property is ignored if you've only one column. You can add the second column with 0 width to get around it.
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>>I have a puzzeling situation with two different controls I'd love some thoughts on:
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>>1. I have a combobox (drop down list style) whose dropdown appears far to the left of the control. It's also unreasonably wide sometimes, but this can probably be dealt with by the data widths feeding the control. I've looked in the debugger at runtime and checked/changed columnwidths and nothing seems to affect the width or position of the dropdown. The position problem the more troublesome, Ring any bells?
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