>hi marcia,
>
>This trick never failed. Resetting ControlSource to empty before issuing a SQL-Statement then return the RecordSource value to the SQL-Statement result would give you a lesser programming code. Why should I create a temporary cursor to be the default RecordSource of the Grid if there are ways in where i can put directly the result of the transaction?
>Anyway, whatever trick we use, and how long we've been on it, doesn't matter.
>
>anthony,

As long as your grid does not depend on column order being different from the field order, you'll be OK. If it does, or you have "custom" columns based on a calculation or a special column size, you'll lose that when the RecordSource is zapped, but you won't lose your column methods, etc.