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>Terry,
>Typically, the control source for the grid (or listbox) would be a cursor.
>So, I would have to loop through the cursor and add the rows to the listbox, correct? That could introduce a delay in the object appearing with data, correct?
>The idea of sorting without indexing is definately attractive.

Hi Allan

It's been my experience that I often have to grab columns from multiple tables for the user to sort on. That is not necessarily easy without using SQL.

You should compare using SQL to create a cursor, and then populating the listview, versus indexing the cursor and binding a grid to that cursor. I'd guess a few index commands will be faster than the looping code that populates the listview.