>I have a one field cursor (mycursor). I have a one column grid.
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>I set the RECORDSOURCETYPE of the grid to "alias"
>I set the RECORDSOURCE of the grid to "mycursor"
>I do not set the CONTROLSOURCE to the grid column, yet it displays the column for my cursor.
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>So, does this mean that vfp knows what I meant? Or am i just lucky?
>
>thanks.

That's what the grid does. If you don't specify each column's ControlSource, it uses the fields in the RecordSource, left to right in order.