Hi Darren ----

>I thought of that but it isn't really an option unfortunately. I don't understand why the behaviour happens. Perhaps if I did I could work around it. It only seems to be problematic when the parent table is displayed in a grid.
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It's doing that because everytime the parent table has "focus" (I use the term loosely) the child relation is re-evaluated and the first record matching the relationship becomes the current recno().