Thanks James, that did the trick.

>I do it all the time. Check out the sparse property.
>
>sparse=.f.
>
>>Has anyone successfully/reliably added a combo to a grid at run-time.
>>The following code works but I don't see the combo, can anyone help?
>>WITH .Column5
>> .RemoveObject("Text1")
>> .AddObject("cboModelId","searchgrd_cbosrch")
>> .CurrentControl = "cboModelId"
>> .ControlSource = "tmpSiteEquipment.fkmodid"
>> .cboModelId.BoundColumn = 3
>> .cboModelId.BoundTo = .T.
>> .cboModelId.ColumnCount = 3
>> .cboModelId.ColumnWidths = "300,300,0"
>> .cboModelId.RowSourceType = 6 && Field
>> .cboModelId.RowSource = "salmodel.modelnumber,descr,pkmodid"
>> .cboModelId.Visible = .T.
>>ENDWITH
>>TIA
>>Trevor