>Hi Tamar,
>
>I have a faint memory (like all the rest <s>) of you coming up with a neat trick, back in the day, for keeping the formatting of the grid while changing the recordsource. My memory is of setting the recordsource to chr(0), but I don't remember if there were other parts. Of course this could have been pre-VFP, back in the 2.6 days.

Definitely wasn't me who came up with that. But yeah, as the others said, space(0).

Tamar