There's no way to hide a cell and reclaim the space on a row by row basis.

You are correct. I do want to hide the cell. It is actually hidden but what I'm trying to achieve here is to have that row shink down. The only time that it shrinks is when the column is hidden. Hiding the cell still makes the grid look like there is an empty row between each row.

example:

Hi,

Don't hide both. That's not what you want. The Column property is not a sub-object of the cell, it's a backward pointer to the Column object of the band. So when you hide the Column, you are hiding the entire column and all cells of that column.

e.Row.Cells("LabelNotes").Column is exactly the same as grid.DisplayLayout.Bands[0].Columns("LabelNotes"). It's the same column object. So it makes no sense to hide the column based on any value in any particular row.

It sounds like you just want to hide the cell.

I have them both set to hide if it is empty.

Private Sub UltraGrid1_InitializeRow(sender As Object, e As Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.InitializeRowEventArgs) Handles UltraGrid1.InitializeRow        
  If String.IsNullOrEmpty(e.Row.Cells("LabelNotes").Value.ToString.Replace(" ", "")) = True Then            
    e.Row.Cells("LabelNotes").Column.Hidden = True            
    e.Row.Cells("LabelNotes").Hidden = True         
 Else            
   e.Row.Cells("LabelNotes").Column.Hidden = False            
   e.Row.Cells("LabelNotes").Hidden = False         
  End If    
End Sub

Like I said before, when there are no rows with "LabelNotes" then it works fine. But as soon as there is at least 1 row with "LabelNotes" then all rows show that cell. It makes my grid look like it has double spacing.