if you use views and requery this doesn't happen if you use a SELECT and re-do it then you get this behaviour , basically this happens when the tables bound to the grid is closed Arnon >Try setting your grid recordsource to "" before you requery your SQL, then >re-setting it to the new table/cursor, even though it's the same name. >There have been threads about grids re-setting column properties to default >grid values during a re-query. > >HTH >Barbara > >