>>>Here I am replaying to myself :-). Am I gunna get spanked for that?
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>>Naah... We allow everyone to reply to the person who needs it the most :-)
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>>>Anyway, the culprit for the above problem is....
>>>The child grid is in a page frame. The activate event of the page does a

>>>THIS.grd1.setfocus
>>>

If I take that out the grid displays normally.
>>>Why do I want a grid.setfocus in the activate event of a page - simple, it forces the record mark to appear on the grid so the user knows where they are.
>>>Any comments??
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>>Have you tried putting the setfocus into the page.refresh() code? I had the same trouble a couple of projects back, and I'm fuzzy on all the things I tried, but I looked at the form and saw a
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mygrid.refresh()
>>mygrid.setfocus()
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in the Page.Refresh()
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>>HTH
>>Barbara
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>Thanks Barbara, that does help - it works. Still need to be careful though since there may be other reasons for doing a refresh within the page, and wouldn't want the grid getting the focus.

David: Add a form property "lGridFocus" and set it to T or F as needed. Then just check this in your Refresh()

Barbara