>In design time, the grid's column 1 displays the check box. I have the sparse property set to .F., which I know displays the check box for the entire column.
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>I placed the grid code into the lsotfocus since the grid lost whatever columns and good stuff it had presented in design time.

Cecil
I don't know if anyone address the comment you made about loosing grid formats, but set the recorsource to empty before you change or take the reference to the data source away from the grid by a "use in" statement.

grid.recordsource = ""
use in sometable
grid.recordsource = someothertable

You not loose any of the design time layout.
Good luck with the rest, Chuck

Extreme Programming = Plan -> Design -> Code -> Test