Mike,

Hi Mike. So which one is the "safe select" way?

This:

myGrid.RecordSource = ""   && use empty string instead of using a temp cursor alias with d same structure 
myCA.CursorFill()
myGrid.RecordSource = myCA.Alias

Or this:

myGrid.RecordSource = "Tempdata"   && Tempdata has exact same structure as myCA.Alias
myCA.CursorFill()
myGrid.RecordSource = myCA.Alias

I have been employing the second one ever since with success. It all went beserk when I decided NOT to have all the fields in the CA shown in the grid. It loads up well upon Init(). But upon encountering CursorFill(), it shows the same number of columns as before, albeit different column content.

For example, if CA has fields A, B, C, D, E, but the grid only shows fields A, C, D. After 2nd CursorFill, it will show fields A, B, C, and not A, C, D.

FYI, the columns are created programmatically via a table containing metadata of fields A, C, D - those that are to be show on grid.

Dennis