Sweet and simple. Thanks Fred.

>>Suppose there is a form with a grid and a combobox that opens with no tables open. The user types the name of a file into a textbox and clicks a button to open the file. As in
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>>lcFileToOpen = txtbox.value
>>use (lcFileToOpen) in 0 alias currenttable
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>>Then we issue:
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>>thisform.grid1.recordsource = currenttable
>>thisform.grid1.init
>>thisform.grid1.refresh
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>>but nothing happens.
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>>So my question is: How do you dynamically set a source table for a grid?
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>>As always, Thanks for any help on this one.
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thisform.grid1.recordsource = "currenttable"

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>Or if you have it in a variable (cAlias = ALIAS("currenttable"), then you would use your syntax.
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>You need quotation marks to do it in code.