Dave
I had a horrible feeling that yr answer #2 (allready tried #1) would be the sort of monster kludge I would have to settle for (I am not a happy bunny)
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Fox complaints forum please take note!

I really hoped there was a nice straightforward property "RememberOldRecord" that I could set to .F. Guess I'm greener than I thought, or not sufficiently sceptic! <g>

Many thanks.
AnG

>2 options:
>1. force a grid refresh when the record pointer has moved in the parent table.
>2. when the record pointer has moved in the parent table, do a thisformset.form1.item1.setfocus where item1 isn't the grid.