i displayed the fields from a table into a grid and now i find that if i view the grid, i cannot delete any record from the same table anymore. the message "file need to be opened exclusively" is displayed. what i dont understand is, i had already opened it exclusively. the grid and the delete function is in 2 different forms. i find that if i dont run the form that contains the grid, i can delete the records from the same table without any problems at all. can anyone help me with this?