>>>>>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

While running from the IDE, I have this line:

On Key Label shift+F11 ox=Sys(1270)

Then you place the mouse over the grid and press Shift-F11. From the command window you can try to populate the grid using ox.recourdsource= ... and so on.