>Thanks Borislav, but I don't want to add a table to the recordsource.
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>thisform.ogrid.RecordSource = ""
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>If I do this it will still retrieve the propeties of the
>current alias. I thought this was odd behavior.
>I can just do like you said, when I know what table to
>use..

...then it makes sense to add the grid. Grid can't do much else than show the records from some alias. And if you have no alias to give it, it's quite useless, isn't it?

IOW, I think you'll get it right when you figure out the best order in which to do whatever you're doing.