>>Steps for this reproducible problem are:
>>- Grid connected to table
>>- text box in Column in grid has focus
>>- Rightclick in column, initiate procedure from a context menu
>>- procedure does Scan ALL on _same_ table as in grid, using same workarea
>>- during scan loop, after so many records process, pop up a modal VFP form telling user "That's X done so far, keep going?", and get a button click from user
>>- little known to me: when modal form closes, activeform and activecontrol (apparently) revert back to the prior form and the grid; grid gets focus; result: record pointer moves back to record where the rightclick was done; scan loop behaves weirdly; can't figure out why, as there is no visible clue this is happening
>>- oddly, this resetting of the record pointer only happens the first time the modal form is shown; times after that, no effect
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>>Comments?
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>Whenever I'm scanning the grid's recordsource (which I usually don't do!), I open it AGAIN under a different alias, do my thing there, close that alias, go back to the grid. New alias has its own record pointer, buffer etc, so it doesn't interfere with the grid and vice versa.

You may also try to do thisform.LockScreen = .t. before the process.

I actually did processes with grid's table a while back, but I don't remember having issues Mark described.