>I'm not clear on what is happening. I don't use the grid builder myself. When >the grids RecordSource is set to a table or view and the RST is alias, and >nothing else is set the grid columns follow the order of the fields in the >table. You should then be able to change the Column ControlSouce to be a >specific field. Also if you change the columns BoundTo to .F. you can override >that again with the contained control in the column.
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RST is set to alias
each column controlSource is set to a field in child (ie: specLines.styleNum)
BoundTo is .t. on each column on this example

>I'm not sure what could be causing it to not recognise or change the columns >control source. Can you look in the debugger and see if the controlsource has >changed?

I will try this

>BTW, I think the builder will automagically add the table to the forms DE >behind-the-scenes.

Yes, it does, and I have to delete them out of the DE after I use the builder (and I would only use the builder one time per form, generally, although in the future it appears it will be zero times per form...).