I wondered how to make a string grid and played around with some ideas. Since I don't actually need one it's ground to a halt Maybe some of the ideas will be useful to someone. I got most things I was thinking of at least to the stage where I think I could make them work, but there are lots of things missing or incomplete. I know that you can use the Excel UDF's or OpenOffice Calc UDFs but that wasn't the point and an AUtoIt string grid seemed like a good idea to me for a while . source =