>Dumb question,.. other than a SELECT, how would I create a dummy cursor?

See CREATE CURSOR command in Help.

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>>>I have a routine that uses a SELECT to create a cursor. If the cursor isn't created because the source file was missing, it is causing my GRID with recordsource/controlsource set to the cursor elements to fail. Can I put something in the GRID.INIT or GRID.LOAD to abort the grid if the cursor wasn't created?
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>>You can return .f. from the grid's init and it would not be created. It doesn't have load event. However, it would not work anyway, so you have to create a dummy cursor in the form's load with the expecting structure of the real cursor.