What is the RecordSource for the grid? If it's a view and you Requery, this is what happens. You need to set the RecordSource to "" before the requery, and set it back afterwards.

>I have a strange situation on a form.
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>It is a grid where I created several columns with custom names.
>The first column is for example called "colourart" and columncount is 22.
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>When I run the form a debug from the init event I can see that the column count is now zero and all properties
>are now set to default values. It's ignoring everything I changed in the form designer?
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>What could cause a grid to loose all of it's settings created in the form designer?
>I copied the grid to another empty form and it works as expected....`