>>>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?

It shouldn't, because you're first assigning it and then creating columns. There's the behavior of a standard grid that takes the currently selected alias if none assigned, probably left there because grid is also used for browse, but I don't see how that would apply to your case.