>>>I need to know how many records are in the grid. I'm getting odd results on a filtered table that populates the grid so I want to know if there is a way to look at the grid itself and know at runtime. Thanks!
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>>If you populate the grid via some SQL select statement, you can use _tally instead of reccount().
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>Wouldn't _TALLY and RECCOUNT() give the same results?

No, not if the resulting cursor is not a real cursor, but only a filtered table.
Try this

Select * from sometable where somecondition into cursor curdummy && somecondition must be optimizable
?reccount() && Shows the number of records in sometable
?_tally && Shows the number of selected records