>1- When the grid first comes up, it is blank. However, if I close the Child form and re-open it... it is populated. Am I missing something on this to make this appear when the form is first opened.

There is no reason at all why the grid shouldn't be populated when the form opens. What sort of child form is it? Also, if you haven't already, try setting the grid's cWorkarea property to the same value of its RecordSource property (which should be the table providing the control source for your column1, ie., the child table).

>2- I am having trouble in the 2nd column of my grid (the column with the description). If I am using the txtTextBoxCustom control in that column and I click in it - the description dissappears and the category value from Column 1 takes it place. When I move off that row, the description again appears. Just in testing this, I noticed that if I use a txtQuckFill control - it works ok.

Well, the txtQuickFill is inappropriate given that column2 is being populated by the seek() return value. In column2 (your seek() return value column) set the column's bound property to False. Set the text box control's lReadOnly property to True. Also, make sure that there is no errant control source value that has crept into the text box control. The text box should have no control source of its own specified.

>3 - How do I make column one do incremental search.

The only way you can do this in Codemine is to set the lSearch property on the grid to True which will provide incremental searching on any/all "read only" column(s).

HTH