Thanks. That definitely confirmed what I was speculating.

I remain baffled over why the textbox won't refresh.

It seems to me that when I issue the 'thisform.refresh' from the grid's AfterRowColChange method, the form is going to call all the refresh methods of it's controls. When the textbox issues it's refresh, it seems like it would notice the reference to the country table in that the country table is it's control source.

Is this normal behavior or is this something weird with just my form?