Jason
If you use a p-view you never have to touch the grid's properties at runtime. p-views work well in all versions of VFP.
>'stop ripping the grid's RowSource'
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>Without doing this then the grid looses the column formating info!
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>Parameterized view? This avoids the grid from misbehaving - didn't release that. Is this true for Vfp3. It tends to misbehave a bit.