Why not just use a view?

>Well Steven I would say to do a work around and not a filter
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>select recno() as recno, *; && record number and every field
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>then get _TALLY
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>n_tot = _TALLY && returns number of records returned by query
>then upon exit of the form update the orignal table
>do while n_tot <> 0
>select tmp_tbl
>m = tmp_tbl.recno
>select org_tbl
>goto m
>replace org_tbl.a with tmp_tbl.a, org_tbl.b with tmp_tbl.b
>n_tot = n_tot - 1
>select tmp_tbl
>skip 1
>enddo
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>this will replace everything, which is not what you want but it is on the right path, you could add a logical field called "change" and make it "T" after a record is changed, then only update those records
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>hope this helps
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>>I need to be able to update the records with the grid.