>Let me phrase the question differently.
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>I have a grid. The RecordSource has 16 records and is unfiltered. The record pointer is on the first record. There are a number of columns. The controlsources are all correct, and refer to fields in the grid.
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>But no records show. When this happens, I am not able to do anything to make any records show either (and would welcome suggestions)
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>And this happens sporadically and inconsistently.
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>Guesses?
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Have you tried

thisform.Draw()

or

thisform.cls()