>>>>I've tried many read events / clear events combinations, still the grid on 'Form3' will not display.
>>>
>>>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?
>>
>>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.

The form is modal and ('Form3') has focus. It's there!! . . . just the grid is blank . .a white box. The form has a 'Cancel' button . . I press it and execution continues.

Any other situations you've seen that makes the grid "blank" . . other than no recordsource?