Microsoft web help solve my problem. It says:
Returns a value indicating whether a specified column is visible currently.
A column is not visible when it is outside the client area of the control's
window - in other words, when it is scrolled out of view.
So I was misusing this property confusing with column-hide/show, desired,
properties
"vbTorture" wrote in message
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> MSDN help says that [ColIsVisible] property:
> ...
> Returns or sets a value indicating whether a specified column is currently
> visible.
> Syntax
>
> object.ColIsVisible(index) [=Boolean]
>
> ...
>
> But when I'm trying to SET a value to a visible column to be not visible
> (False) I'm getting this error message.
> "Assignment to constant not permited"
> The MSDN help says that I'm trying to set a value to a readonly property.
> The column index is a valid number, by the way.
>
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