Hello All, Well I did try your suggestions howerver nothing worked. I think next time I will manually create the Table and writ ethe code rathe rthan use the Gridview for this tyoe of situation. With that said here is what i did. 1. Convert the column to a template 2. The columns that I want to hide - site the width to 0 3. In the ItemTemplate just remove the text so that the column title is is blank 4. On the ASP: Code set GridLines = None 5. In the edit template Put the text/check box you want to use Doing the above steps allowed me to hide the columns in "Normal mode" and have them show in edit mode. Thanks guys for all the help, Tommy :laugh:
