>>>Ed, As always your expert advice helps.
>>>This I did and works except for a small bug. When the grid is redisplayed after a sort, the field columns get jumbled with data from other fields. I have the property set to alias.
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>>Do you mean that grid columns mix data (e.g. column #1 shows field 'name' instead of field 'id', etc.). If this is the case you should 'change grid source' more carefully. Besides common Grid.RecordSource property, each column has ControlSource property, and you can reset them (the same way) to assign each column source to particular table field.
>>HTH. I am leaving now, and will not have opprotunity to reply until next morning.
>Well what I had to end up doing was use the 'copy fields f1,f4,f5,f6 to tmpfil.
>How do I make the grid readonly like 'brow nomodify'?

Thisform.Grid1.ReadOnly=.T.