In this case I do recreate each time the page/form is activated -- not pretty or desirable.

However, this problem occurs the first time I activate the page (if I've activated two other pages in the correct order beforehand), so the problem is really occuring on first activation and creation of the grid.

>>The most curious thing here is that it's only a most particular sequence of accessing other pages that causes this grid not to display properly. It's been there for weeks, used daily by many people, and this oddity only came to my attention yesterday.
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>>So, under all but some very unique conditions, this grid works OK. But, when those unique conditions occur, VFP acts like there are no records in the cursor. Question remains -- how could that be? It doesn't seem to me that it's related to the columns ....
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>>(Yes, code for grid creating is invoked from Page.Activate)
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>It might be irrelevant but I meant that call is triggered, i.e. you dont recreate grid every time when activate page/form, but only when it's really needed.
>Something really kills your grid, maybe you do any manipulations with the cursor, e.g. Zap when focus is on grid?