>>>I tried as you suggest before I wrote. It did not seem to help but I will try again. One think I am not certain should I put an '=' before the table name or relation name such as '=table' in the properties
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>>No need for =.
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>thanks Michel, I now have the daughter grid box working for the first time but the parent grid box still shows many dash lines (indicating the 'skip to' 1 to many relation). How do I fix this? Incidently the developers guide and the help screens do no agree on instructions!
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>thanks.
>jim

i don't think you need the skip to. set skip off into [child].