>In this way, the grid will become blank!
>
>a method suggested by other in this group is to :
>1. delete the records, or mark the records in the grid, and
>2. set the recordsource to space(0),
>3. issue pack the tables
>4. reset to the tables by recordsource.
>
>If you want to delete a record in child tables, and the parent tables will be modified somehow, that's quite different from above method.
>
>But if you just want to delete a record from parent tables with records in
>Child tables, just set the relationship to be in phase with parent records.
Chu,
As I remember I told that pack wouldn't be good there at all. If you're packing at your own risk then naturally set recordsource to none temporarily.
Cetin