Please ignore above post. I discovered how to do it: I assigned each column to hide to a TkTextTag with 'elide' => true. "Albert L. Wagner" wrote: > > I need to hide several columns of text on the left side of a > document under program control, i.e., narrow the view so that the > horizontal scroll bar cannot bring the hidden columns into view, > yet the hidden columns will still contain data. This is very > like the way that TkCanvas can set a -scrollRegion. Is this > possible with the TkText widget? If so, how might I do that? > -- > "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: > the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." > - Walter Lippman -- "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." - Walter Lippman