>First immediate idea - have this option group as a separate class with preselected Option 1. Additional advantages of this approach - you can easily add functionality if needed.
>
>BTW, is this column bound? What field it is bound to?

yes the column is bound to a cursor: Here is how my cursor is created:

CREATE CURSOR crs_whs (crsinst  C(20), crsprod C(20), crswhs C(5), crswho C(3), crsdte datetime, crsrequestamt n(6), crsiid i, crspid i, crsird i, crsaccptamt n(6), ;
			crsitem l, crsbox i, crsdelivertype c(1))  && create cursor structure

....

SELECT crs_grid1
				
REQUERY('lv_whs_request')
INSERT INTO crs_grid1 (crsinst, crsprod, crswhs, crswho, crsdte, crsrequestamt, crsiid, crspid, crsird, crsaccptamt, crsdelivertype) SELECT * from lv_whs_request

	SELECT crs_grid1
....

		.column8.controlsource = "crs_grid1.crsbox"		
		IF TYPE('.Column8.Text1.name') = 'C'
			.Column8.RemoveObject('Text1')
		ENDIF 
		IF !TYPE('.Column8.optiongroup1.name') = 'C'
			.Column8.NewObject("optiongroup1", "Optiongroup")
		ENDIF 
.....

If I create a class, how would I called it into the grid? I was wonder also if I could just populate the "crsbox" with value 1 and maybe it will pick it up for my defaults.

thanks
nick