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I don't suppose there's an easy way to get long text in one cell to overflow into the next cell in a Data Grid table, the way it would naturally in a spreadsheet?

Michael.

Trevor is the only one who would really know, but I think not. You can maybe kludge this, though?

Craig

I do not think it is an overflow in excel but more of an over-projection. Because there is no data in the overflown cell and as soon as you enter something in the overflown cell there is no overflow anymore.

Regards,

Paul

Well, that’s what I want: when there’s no data in the next cell, I’d like the first cell to overflow into the next.

Just like a table field, a dataGrid uses a "phantom" field to enter data. It is this that you see as the editable field, and which overlies the actual field of interest in the group. A kludge, assuming we do not hear from Trevor, is to create your own semi-permanent overlying field and manage it depending on the length of its text.

This seems both easily doable and very awkward.

Craig