>Per your suggestion, I deleted the grid built by the grid builder, then added one and manually added the recordsource under properties. It still doesn't show the data either when the form is first opened or when it refreshes. I wonder if I need to command the grid to refresh? and if so, how?
>(Still a novice on grids.)

You still should fire Grid.Recordsource="mytable" from some place (e.g. Grid.Init or Form.Init event).