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>Thanks John.>

For nothing? Sorry Mike <g>.

> See my reply to Jim Booth's first reply to me. Its wrong that the grid provides all kinds of new functionality without providing the features that the browse still has. What is the sense of data controls that are not Rushmore aware being in VFP?
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Have you run tests to quantify the speed differences between BROWSE and a Grid on filtered tables? And could the speed difference be because of a fundamental difference in the way each binds to the data? I don't understand how the grid being or not being Rushmore aware would have anything to do with the way the filter is being applied to the table since the filter is "bound" to the table and not the grid.

Having said that, I don't see how you can (or would want to) avoid a view, especially where the set of records shown may change in that same form instance. I have tried to use the Filter property of DE cursors in the past and have usually given up and went with the View.