>>>I've tried many read events / clear events combinations, still the grid on 'Form3' will not display.
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>>This has nothing to do with READ/CLEAR EVENTS. It has to do with manipulation of the cursor underlying the grid. What is the grid's recordsource, and how/when is it created?
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>RecordSourceType is Alias, Record source is a Table, 'Table1'.
>No filter, every record in the table is available for the grid, about 1000.
>The click event code is actually -
>
>use 'Table1'
>set order to 'order'
>DO FORM 'Form3'
>sele 'Table1'
>use
>Thisform.release

This is the code that calls the third form? If form 3 modal? If not, your code is falling right through and closing the table.