tried page.refresh and pageframe.refresh. also tried your suggestion about the activepage. still the last line flickers in the grid.

i do not have a data environment. have tried both setting and not setting the parent/child table relationship in code before the addobject. do not believe my child table pointer is being moved after i add object. it is at eof(). in the debugger i can see eof() and recno() as i step through the code.

still trying

brenda