Hi, Mike... one more question if you have a minute.

I've got my grid built and it's purty! :) But then when I hide that form, go to another form and do my stuff, and come back, the grid is empty. Even though I've made sure that the table it's using as a recordsource is open and selected, it's just a plain grey box.

So I figured maybe I had to do another query on my table or something. So I made two instances of my table... one is a holding table, to hold my information unchanging in the background, and another is the one that is used as the recordsource for my grid (this way I can say select * from holding into recordsourcetable -- because I originally build my holding table with a select .f. as usethisone, nextfield, nextfield...... and I don't want that .f./.t. in the holding table to get lost when I requery it). Okay, so I've got these two tables and I do another select * from holding into recordsource and my data shows up again... but all the formatting I did in my grid (with the builder) is gone.

What I'm thinking I'll have to do is put all that pretty formatting back in programatically. Does that sound right or am I missing something? Thanks.