Just a quick update - I did not know this before but if you instantiate a grid on a form, it *assumes* the recordsource whatever table/view is open in the current workspace if you do not specify this specifically in the setup e.g.

USE companys
loform=CREATEOBJECT("form")
loform.AddObject("TestGrid","grid")
? loForm.testgrid.RecordSource

Result: .Recordsource = "companys"

I would have thought .Recordsource would be empty if not explicitly set on the designer screen.

Albert