the problem exists because you're using the .additem method to populate
your grid as opposed to the set-coordinate-assign-value approach.

as per the vb help on grid.additem, the tab char (chr(09)) is used to
delimited the fields for each row.

hence, if want to start at column 1 as opposed to 0, you additem should
look like:

    grd.additem chr(9) & "cell 1/1" & chr(9) & "cell 1/2" & ...

good luck.

-paul-