Hi Garrett,

The timer event calls a Form Method (to re populate the grids base table. I found by refreshing the grid during the Form Method, everything was OK, however refreshing the grid during the timer event did not work.

Regards
Doug Johnston

>>The timer control refreshes the data in the grid every
>>3 minutes. When the timer fires, the grid goes blank
>>(grid lines etc are still there, this is not a loss of
>>control source problem), but the only way I can get the
>>grid to actually display anything is via a key press. This
>>can be any key (Delete, Insert etc).
>
>I haven't seen this problem exactly, but is this a buffered table, and is someone else entering data into the same table?
>
>Also, have you tried a DOEVENTS or INKEY(.01) instead of the keypress?