>>>Do you have the property AllowCellSelection to False?
>Huh?

I had interpreted this to mean that ths value SHOULD be false.

>MyGrid.AllowCellSelection = .T. (so that your textbox's dblclick event will fire instead of the grid's dblclick)... then put your code back in the textbox's dblclick event.
>
>You could use bindevents, or the grid's events, but I think you're gonna want to stay really basic here until you get your bearings.
ABSOLUTELY

*Form Init Method
CLOSE DATABASES all
USE myTable
SET PROCEDURE TO myProcFile
DO create_heirarchy WITH "myTable","task","Parent","crsFormatted"
GO TOP
WITH thisform.grid1 
	.recordsource = "crsFormatted"
	.ColumnCount = FCOUNT('crsFormatted')
ENDWITH

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Form1.grid1.column1.text1.dblclick
MESSAGEBOX("Column1 Double Click")

*Form1.grid1.column2.text1.dblclick
MESSAGEBOX("Column2 Double Click")

*Form1.grid1.column3.text1.dblclick
MESSAGEBOX("Column3 Double Click")

*Form1.grid1.column4.text1.dblclick
MESSAGEBOX("Column4 Double Click")

*Form1.grid1.column5.text1.dblclick
MESSAGEBOX("Column5 Double Click")

that's all the code in the form. The form is your basic VFP CREATE FORM. The grid is your basic VFP class (class = grid, baseclass = grid). Double-click in any column of the grid and the cell's contents get highlighted exactly as if there were no dbl-click code in the textbox.

What's even more perplexing to me is that we have grid classes that can be sorted and filtered. I put one of those on my form and put MESSAGEBOX() and NODEFAULT in the grid textbox controls and got the same non-result. But making it as basic as possible doesn't seem to help

Thanks for your help. When it gets solved it will probably be a DUH moment.