>I want to ...
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>- build a cursor containing a subset of the main table...
>- populate a grid from the cursor...
>- have the user make a change via a pop-up edit window...
>- save the change to the original main table...
>- have the grid (cursor) also reflect the change
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>I'm sure that this is an 'every day' kind of thing, but there are so many ways to accomplish this... I'm looking for suggestions...
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>Thanks

You should have generic method which will get table records into cursor (SELECT or SEEK/SCAN) and use this cursor as grid.recordsource, actually nothing more. It's important that cursor will carry all primary key fields from the table.