Thank you once again Sergey. It worked :)

>Use

messagebox(Eval(thisform.grdTKey.column1.text1.controlsource))
>messagebox(Eval(thisform.grdTKey.column2.text1.controlsource))

Only the value of the control in the current cell is updates.
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>
>>Hi,
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>>I've got a grid with two columns. I have a command button that has
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>>messagebox(thisform.grdTKey.column1.text1.value)
>>messagebox(thisform.grdTKey.column2.text1.value)
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>>It works fine the first I click the command button, but not the second time. If I move to a different record and click the command button the column1 value is correct, but the column2 value hasn't been updated.
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>>Any ideas? Using vfp 5
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>>thanks,
>>Chris