>(long enough i could read which record it was) then go blank. finally made a temp table with only the subset of records i needed and only displayed those.

I found a way that works for the grid content.
with grid2.RecordSourceType = SQL Statement
and grid2.RecordSource = SELECT * FROM table2 WHERE field1=table1.field1

This works well, but I need to modify content in grid2.
Can I do something similar and have grid2 not ReadOnly?

Claude