>Thank you Al
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>The idea of a cursor that I zap and repopulate is great. I'm sure that one will work beautifully. However, if I want to try the other way you suggested, how would I go about it? Will restting the proprties as I described before automatically tie it to the window, provided that I had set the properties to blank before closing it?
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>Just in parentices, the recordSource is NOT lost. The columncount, though, is set to 0, and naturally the controlSource of all columns disappear with the column.
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>Steven

The principle is, set all data binding settings to blank before you close the table, then after you re-open the table, set the settings back to what they were:

* Before closing the table:
WITH MyGrid
    .Column1.ControlSource = ""
    .Column2.ControlSource = ""
    etc...
    .RecordSource = ""

ENDWITH

* After you re-open the table:
WITH MyGrid
    .RecordSource = < alias >
    .Column1.ControlSource = < column1 >
    etc...

ENDWITH