Edward & Marcia,

Thanks for your replies.
Marcia - yes I did refresh the grid and had the same problem !@#
Edward, The doing an Init of the Grid did solve the problem, and yes the grid is on a page and no it does not have focus at the time.
I' going to chalk this one up to interference by cryolic waves of the space-time continium :)

>>>> I was just surprised and intrigued that the act of ZAPping the table (then populating it again) would cause the grid not to display the table's contents. <<
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>>So am I, considering that this is the way I do it and I don't have any problems ;-) Are you refreshing the grid after appending from the temporary cursor?
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>>Marcia
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>It really happens sometimes, especially when grid is part of page. I don't know why, but it happens. So, just calling Grid.Init (it contains all settings) one more time (after ZAP) does not hurt.
>It could be another reason for grid problems: if re-populating code is fired when focus is on grid itself (e.g. from grid.column.command.click) then focus should be shifted to outside object and returned back.