>>>I have a grid which has a dbf as the controlsource, client.name, client.firstname, it has 4 records and it shows
>>>up as a white blank screen, why is this?
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>>Sheena, you probably reset the grid.controlsource somehow on the way which leads to the completely white space in grid.
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>>Nick
>No i haven't, but I've removed the table from the DE and there is nothing in record source and record sourcece type is alias

I don't quite understand that: do you mean that the table you want as the Grid.RecordSource is not in DE, and:
1. you do not set up the Grid.RecordSource property at design time
2. you do setup the ControlSources for the columns (column.Textboxes?) in code, right?