>I have a grid with a recordsource of 5 records & no relations. looking at this in the debug mode the controlsource value shows correctly but thisform.grid.column.textbox.value shows zero. I test for the value, if zero a message to input a value shows. My problem is, a value is input but i am in a loop with the error message. I am having trouble understanding why the value displays in the grid but does not show in the value property of the textbox.
>the table is buffered and tableupdate has been done.
>Any ideas?

You may try to use Grid.Value property which displays the value of the column control which is active at the moment. Note that the Grid.Value property is available only when the Grid control has the focus.