You have to set Recordsource of the grid to the empty string, repopulate recordsource cursor/table and set Recordsource back to original. See faq#8019 for some additional info.

>Anyone have a suggestion on how to handle this situation:
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>I have a form with a grid. In the event of a network break, the form
>restablishes the connection. But of course this blanks out the grid.
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>Is there any "easy" way to repopulate the grid without programmatically
>defining every column and all the associated properties?
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>Thanks