>>Hi, me again!
>>I'm putting a checkbox in the first column of a grid. The second column is a series of items from a related file (related to the files that the checkbox control source is in)
>>It all works OK, except that the checkbox only shows up when the record is select. I have the checkbox's table as the initial selected alias in the DE, and have relationship set in the DE between the two files. Why won't the checkbox show up always?????
>>Thanks loads.
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>Column.Sparse=.f.

Thanks--I should have tried that, I wasjust frustrated with it and went on to something else.