Hello New York
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>After the sum command, the record pointer is at EOF.

no it aint - I have a 'locate' after that which sends it back to the top...

>And also are you sure the current work area is pointing
>at the grid recordsource after the control returns to the
>grid form ?

completely. And as I said earlier, I have the same problem with a simple button which just appends a blank record with some junk values

Harry