I'm glad to hear that you found the problem. Shows how important it is to check which properties are NOT default.

>Turns out, I had managed to set Form.BindControls to false.
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>>>>Are you working with plain VFP, or is this part of a framework, builder or similar?
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>>>Plain VFP 9 - and as someone said earlier - it should be simple, and I agree with that - just seems no one told this form that fact
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>>Apart from some still unanswered questions/untried tips, I wonder if the grid in question is a baseclass grid, or a subclassed grid?