>>>>>>Again, this is all great advice for re-showing the grid, but the data's not showing up for the initial cursor. The 3 columns show, with the correct headers - just no data.
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>>>>>A blind guess then - make sure your cursor is selected when the grid initiates, and it's not at eof().
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>>>>Yup, Cursor is created right before being assigned as the RecordSource, there is data and it is at the top of file.
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>>>>Would it matter if the cursor is selected or not, since I'm explicitly calling the cursor name in the setting for the RecordSource?
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>>>Are you sure that you work with the correct grid?
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>>Sometimes, I wonder (grin) but there's only one on the form - so yeah, I'm pretty sure
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>stupid suggestion -- add a command button on form, the on the Click() event perform a browse on the cursor in question -- do you see data when the button is clicked?

Yes, yes I do - there's been data in the cursor every time - it just doesn't show on the form