Hi Robin,
I think all you need is that the grid gets the focus in order to refresh.
The code that I use in the timer is:

with thisform
  if not (.adding or .editing) && don't want the refresh while adding/editing
     loActiveControl = .ActiveControl
     .GrdStrip.SetFocus
     loActiveControl.setfocus
  endif
endwith

HTH

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>Hi! I have a grid that is the central table of my project, I know you shouldn't really use a grid in most cases for maintenance, but in this case the grid is really what is needed.
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>I'm using no buffering at all, because I want up to three users to add to the grid at the same time, so there's no edit mode or whatever.
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>I was told some time ago to forget the browse command, and use a grid in a form.
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>How do I get the grid to refresh every say 10 seconds, like the set refresh command in a browse window.
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>I set up a timer event and put in the code
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>thisform.GrdStrip.Refesh()
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>But the grid does not contain any new information when it's refreshed?
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>TIA