It seems that almost everyone and his brother has developed an 'enhanced string grid'. Some grids have columns with alignments, others can even change the cell color! TDataGrid is a little bit different. Of course, the naked (not data-aware) component is a simple string grid. It has some of the most-wanted features missed in TStringGrid. But there is more... Please take a look at TDBDataGrid and the DBDEMO.DPR and you will see what I mean.