Hi David,

I have not worked much with views, I've been using 2.6 for way to long and am now trying to keep my head above water in the Oop world! I will look into it, thanks for the pointer.

>Norm,
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>You should look at using a parameterized view instead of a plain cursor. To update it you just Requery( "TheView" ) and this does not cause the grid to self destruct and rebuild itself like your SELECT is forcing.
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I am using a SQL - Select into a cursor which is used as the datasource for my grid. I use the following line after the select and it updates fine the first time through.
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THISFORM.ComboBox1.RowSource = THISFORM.ComboBox1.RowSource
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However, when the select is executed the second, or third, or.... time the headings and colum widths are reset to match the cursor. How do I maintain my original settings?