>> Who knows how did you define the grid, grid columns, and column controls?
>My grid is the VFP standard grid. Nothing defined in the grid, except new title header. The recordsourcetype property is set to "alias", recordsource = mycursor, and readonly is set to false. Nothing particular here.

You may deliberately set column controls for this. For General field it may be olebound control: it will show the general field content as is, without clicking; it may be textbox control - then it will show something like "Gen" and you may click on it to display the gen content in the separate window.

If you just droped the grid on the form, then most likely you see "Gen" in the column textbox.