Bruse,

>That's a strange one - I've used checkboxes in grids dozens of times now, and >never seen that behavior, not just with checkboxes, but *any* column controls. >Do you have any other controls in that column, like the default textbox, that >might be affecting things?

No, I got rid of the default textbox...heck, that could be the problem...

>The way I always use grid checkboxes, though, is with a checkbox in a >container dropped into the column, and I set the controlsource in both the >column and the checkbox to the logical field. Maybe that stops whatever >problem you're seeing.

Interesting.

>The reason for the container, BTW, is it allows centering of the checkbox >within the column, in case you ever want to do that...

That's a cool idea! I like it..my screen looks OK now, and it is working, but I may come back to this and might try the centering idea too.

Thanks for your comments!

JoeK