>Maybe someone could settle this once and for all. Is there a way to use a udf on a field as the controlsource for a column in a grid. I store a lot of data coded and use a conversion table to display the code. Right now I have to use an sql to do the udf and then use the resultant table (temporary) to as the source for the grid. A real pain.

Why not fire the UDF in the INIT() of the object & leave the ControlSource as the resulting SQL cursor?

HTH,
Tom