James,
Are you using a grid from one of the frameworks? In VMP you may need to ZAP the UserPref table, which will override your settings when you are running a compiled EXE. For straight VFP you might also try deleting the FoxUser table.

Barbara

>Hello all,
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>I have a parent table and a child table with a one to many relationship, when the parent tabel moves the child table populates a grid, this all works fine, the problem i am having is the grid properties are changing at run time, i mean even the headers are changing properties, i only want to show 3 columns, so i have the column property of the grid set to 3 and i manually set the dimensions to appear how i would like, the grid still seems to populate the grid with all the fields in the table and allows you to tab horizonally through the grid to the fields you can not see.
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>can someone help me out with this. am i missing something basic with a property to force the appearance of the grid
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>also, i did set the control source of the grid to the child table and the linkmaster to the parent, the control source for each column i set to the field i wanted to show
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>thanks
>james