Thanks Nick,

I think this was the workaround I was looking for. I did .select
(or.activate) just from old habits. And obviously that is where the
inconsistency (or bug) shows up.
It does always mark _all_ columns covered by the merge(s) in the column I
selected.

But of course I do not need to .select, just to modify the width of the
column ;-)

Thanks all, case closed / Åke