What I do when building a form is establish the DD first. Then, with the DD window open, drag fields from the tables onto the forms. They auto have the right size, the field caption as a label, and inherit all the props you've attributed to them in the table builder, e.g. validation, object class (e.g. your own text box class), etc.

Similarly, if you crtl-select several fields, and drag them onto the form, you'll have a ready-made grid, complete with col heads as captions.

If, on the other hand, you manually build a grid then you have to set these props yourself. but, use the grid builder wizard and this is all done for you auto.

That help?

Terry :-)

>Sounds like just what I wanted, but I tried & put in captions for all my fields in the table, but it does not work. Field name displays instead of caption. Any ideas? Thanks.
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>>>I'd like to display a description instead of field name in grid's header. Is there an easy way to do so (not programatically)? I looked in the table & there is a field caption. What is that for?
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>>It is exactly for things like this :-) The caption should appear as the column heading by default. If none then the field name does. However, I think you must make sure all fields have a caption.
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>>Terry