>When I append blank to the recordsource cursor of my grid, it doesn't look like it worked. the scrollbars are still greyed and the grid is still blank. Upon further investigation I found the appended row hiding behind the header of the grid (I had to click the up arrow on the scrollbar.) Is there a simple way this can be prevented?

Do you APPEND BLANK in a button or another object? If so, set focus to the grid right after that. If that doens't work, how about a Refresh()?