>>2) I develped a program to display certain records on screen using grids before they are printed out. now i find
> that i have to filter the records shown on the grids according to certain dates. after that, i'm also supposed to let
> the user select which records they want to print out from the filtered list. I'm really confused as to how i'm
> supposed to let them select the records from the grid? is there any other way i can let users select random
> records from a table other than grids?
>
><< You could add a column to the grid and put a checkbox control in it. The user could check the records he want
> to print.>>
>
>i understand what u are trying to teach me here but how do i specify that "this" checkbox is for "this" record?

Use a logical field in the source (table, view, cursor). The grid checkbox cells will automatically pick up the T/F from the logicals...