Thanks Fred.

What you said makes sense ... almost too simple actually ... makes me feel kind of dumb for asking. 8?)

Rodd

>>In my grid's KeyPress event, I placed the following:
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>>= messagebox("Key = " + TRANSFORM(nKeyCode,"999"))
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>>I have the grid's RowSource set to a valid SQL statement and it's RowSourceType = 4.
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>>When the grid gets focus, I can punch any key I want to and the KeyPress event (and thus my messagebox) never fires. Why is this? Does the RowSource have to be editable? Is there another setting that has to be enabled before the grid's KeyPress event will fire?
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>The grid.KeyPress only fires when you're not on a row. What's actually firing is the control's .KeyPress of whatever column you're actually in.