>I have a cursor I use through out an app. At times, I would like to narrow the rows displayed (in my grid) to records in the cursor that meet a specific qualification and ideally, I don't want to lose the original rows in the cursor (due to some recno() references etc)... just not see them. Is there a way to do that without reselecting the cursor?

Alternately, if you don't want a filter (which gets reevaluated for each visible record on each refresh of the grid), you can create a filtered index on the cursor:

index on {expression} for {filter expression} tag whatever of {cdxFileName}

The "of {cdxFileName}" is recommended, because if you have a read-only cursor, you can give it only one tag without it; if you try a second one, it complains about being read-only. But that holds only for the structural index, i.e. the one which has the same filename as the table. Use your favorite random name generator to create this filename. In VFP7, you can create the cursor as ReadWrite; in VFP6 you can use the regular

Use (dbf("cursoralias")) again in 0 alias NewAlias

trick to make the cursor read-write. If it's read-write, you can index it any way you like. In your grid, just set the order of your cursor to this tag and there you are. Make sure you issue a locate or any other record movement between indexing and refreshing the grid, just to make sure you're not sitting on an invisible record (maybe this is not needed at all, but just in case).