Great! I guess, this discovery deserves few stars, which I would just assign myself :)

>>How is the controlsource for this column set? It should be MyTable.myField If you omit myTable part, you may have this weird effect
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>Thank you Nadya. This solves an old problem for me also. My workaround was to rearange the table (order of the columns) and not put anything into the controlsource. This way the grid displayed column 1 of the table in column 1 of the grid and so on.
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>Again thank you
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>Einar