Thanks Boyd, I never thought about the headers, I should be able to handle the normal MFC message for the context menu and by using the HitTest() method of the column header I could then find the associated column and add/enable the "delete" item in the context menu.

I like to use a context menu for this kind of thing too, but I usually have a main menu item and toolbar button for the same purpose, so it would be nice if the grid maintained a "current column" to allow this, but until then the context menu will have to do.

Thanks again.

I'm not certain if there is a way to determine the focused column, but you do have one alternative.

I always use the right-click menu on the column header for actions such as this, and it is possible to determine which column the user right-clicked on.  I don't use the MFC version, but the ActiveX version has a ColumnClick event as well as a HitTest method (both of which can be used to provide right-click menus for a column).  The MFC version must surely have an equivalent approach.  Since you know which column triggered the right-click menu, you'll know which column to remove if the user chooses that action.

Hi, in my application the user can dynamically add columns to the report control and I want to allow them to remove columns too, but there doesn't appear to be any concept of a current cell in the report control so there is no intuitive way to select a column for deletion.  I can find the focused row but there is no equivalent focused column.   Am I missing something? Thanks.