Thats what I ended up doing. Grid are a real PITA!

>Hi Kevin,
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>>No, setting it to FALSE solved it. I now see the controls ????
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> Are you looking at one table, or more with this grid? If more then one table, look at the buffering or how you open the tables.
>
>>Now, I am intermittently getting 'Record is not locked' as I moved
>>from one row or column to another. There is no code in this grid,
>>so I don't see where this is coming from.
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>You can not assume anything when you are changing the way grids start out. For one thing, textboxes have a controlsource, while labels have only the caption. Why don't you just keep the grid the startting way, and make the specific cells readonly depending on the data?
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>>Also, the columns with labels are not getting their caption's set.
>>Beth suggested setting the caption, but shouldn't that be done
>>automagically by the grid?
>>
>>And another thing. If I leave Bound as .T., I get a GPF and crash.
>>If I set Bound to .T. AFTER I open the alias, then it's fine.
>>
>>All I'm trying to do is replace the textboxs with other controls where
>>a textbox is not needed. This should not be so difficult.