>Hi Terry
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>Sorry mate I forgot to mention I have tried as a quick test I set the enabled to .f. and readonly .t. and I can still select records in the grid!
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>Obviously Im missing something
>
>Thanks

When you switch to EditMode, some of the code (probably your framework's) is setting enabled property of all controls to true. Put some DEBUGOUT messages to make sure the enabled property is preserved. But disabled grids don't look very nice, in my opinion.