Marco,

> If you do the same in another form with a brand new grid, do you get
> the same behaviour?
> Try not to set the fiedlwidth of the column that is the StretchColumn
> field, maybe IBO first calculation is done with that value...
> If desperade, you could post the source of the grids property and we
> can have a look (right click on the form, "view as text", copy the
> section regarding the grid),
> regards

It does not make any difference as long as the panel and thus the grid is
small enough. If I increase the width of the grid , this effect disappears.
I will live with it for the time being.

Florian