>ok, I created a cursor but I can't get it to display in the grid. I can't use the builder to set the properties of the grid as it uses tables or views only. I set the rowsource to it and created the cursor in the init of the form. Where am I going wrong?

John, each time when you re-create your cursor the grid.RecordSource (and column.ControlSource, if you set them specifically) get trashed. So you have to re-set them again after that. To preserve the grid formatting properties, before re-creating the cursor set grid.RecordSource = "". When you use the view and REQUERY() all this doesn't happen.

Nick