>>>>>>I have created a form as a class. The form includes menus (command buttons in containers) and a grid all used for searching for the desired record. When I run a form drived from this class I have an option (command button) to make visible and expand the grid and allow the user to select the desire record. The problem is that although everything works as designed, the lables and text boxes under the grid show through. The grid has focus and I can scroll it up and down. I tried the zorder property but it is not avalable. Any ideas?
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>>why not programmatically make the textboxes visible property change from .t. to .f. and back as needed.
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>Another idea: to put the grid into container with BackStyle property = 1 (Opaque)

It turned out to be very simple. I found that all I had to do was use the top menu selection "Format" and "Bring to Front". Apparently the grid was not the last item to be refreshed until I did that. Thanks everyone for your help. JJH.