Hi dont know if this will help http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1234983&SiteID=1[^] Just bumped into it just now Best of luck

Hi, im a newbie, and i now the answer is probably very simple but i just cannot figure it out.:confused: I would like to get the datagridview to STOP taking the first row as the columnheader. i hav tried using DataGridView1.Columns(0).HeaderText but iv realised it doesnt stop taking the first row as the column header but it simply replaces the text in that column header but does not do what i want. Any help is much appreciated PS i am using vb