>I have a view that displays table results (viewgrid). In order to have access to all fields in the primary table (incident) when printing, I create a very simple select command:
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>select incident.* ;
>    from viewgrid, incident;
>    where incident.inc_id = viewgrid.inc_id ;
>    into cursor printjob
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>I would think that printjob would retain the fields in the order of viewgrid, but this is not happening. It seems to be in the natural order of incident.
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>Is there something wrong with my select command? Should I be handling this differently?

I believe your assumption is incorrect. You are not selecting any fields from viewgrid, they are all comming from incident so the fields will be ordered as they are in incident. This code seems awkward, but at first blush you could do something like

SELECT * FROM viewgrid WHERE .f. INTO CURSOR printjob READWRITE   && create the cursor with the right structure

SELECT * ;
    FROM incident;
              JOIN viewgrid ON incident.inc_id = viewgrid.inc_id;
   INTO CURSOR curHold

SELECT printjob
APPEND FROM DBF('curHold')