>Regardless what I put for the controlsource for each column, my grid always displays the first field of the cursor first, the second field second and so on. What property am I missing that allows me to specify the contents of a column besides controlsource. By the way, it works fine when I display a table instead of a cursor, and I am referencing the fields as 'MyCursor.Field1' in the control source property of the column.
>-- Rick

If you set or reset the grid's recordsource at runtime, the grid's column's source will be overwritten with the fields in the cursor. To set them specifically, you have have to re-specify them in code, after you set the recordsourece for the grid.