>Dear all,
>
>Dang that grid control!
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>The problem was that I chose the recordsource as "Table" rather than "alias". Since the table was already open in 1 the grid opened another copy of the table in another work area and displayed the data... this is a very confusing behaviour of VFP 6 and up.
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>Once I changed the recordsource to "Alias" everything began working perfectly. I had tried this earlier but it hadn't worked because I used "Personel.Dat" as the alias name rather than "Personel"...
>
>Thanks for all your help anyway! :)
>
>-Bryan

I'm glad you figured it out.