Thanks for the response. CellPadding and CellSpacing will increase the height of the row which I don`t want. I could fix the width with percentage or pixels, but with variable length data, this method will only work sometimes. What would be best is if there was a way to convert units to a number type and back. Then I could grab the width of a column, add some units to it and then convert it back. Veeves

When a datagrid gets populated, if the data is longer than the header text, the column is only wide enough for the data to fit. The grid lines are right up against the data making it difficult to read. is there a way to manipulate the column width at runtime adding some space between the data and grid lines? Veeves