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>>I found that any view going to grid can be simplified in code (no joins) and accomodated in grid (customized column.controlsource).
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>I create views, drag them onto a form and the grid pretty much works exactly as I want. Usually all I ever do is remove the key field columns and change a few column widths. If I need to reuse the same view grid in more than one place I save it as a class.

I do this differently, like to go inside of grid and manipulate it alot ;). The main thing I like about using views/cursors vs relations/filters is that these manipulations will affect separated data entity (not real tables).
BTW, I remember Fortran (my first prog experience) too.