>Hi Ed,
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>I did exactly what you suggested by manually setting up the grid and it's properties (ie. recordsource, columncount, column.controlsource, headers) in the activate event for the tab and the effect was no different then what I started with.... the grid excepts the settings but looks and behaves as if there's no table attached.... I'm totally lost here! Is there an example of what I'm trying to do somewhere on the web so I can see the code ?
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>Thanks,
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>Don

Could you post Activate event code here?