>One thing I have never figured out about Grids is why there are 2 places to enter the ControlSource for a each column.
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>i.e. suppose you have a column for the Price of a product. There will be 3 elements for that column: The ColumnName, Header1 and Text1. It seems I must always enter the ControlSource twice, once under the ColumnName and again under Text1. If the ControlSources are not the same then the Grid becomes buggy.
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>Wouldn't it be easier to just enter the ColumnSource in the text1 space?
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>What is the purpose of entering the ControlSource twice?
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>Mike Smith

This behaviour it is controlled by the column's Bound property. Read the Help.

Of course, with Sparse = .F., you don't see the column values ( a hidden textbox object )
but set or not unset the column's ControlSource can change the the operation of the grid functionallity however