Hi Marcia,

It's still a problem in VFP 8, haven't tried 9 for this effect. Would be nice if it's fixed. I didn't know that it only applied to modal forms either, so I must have a closer look at that.

Thanks for your advice <g>.

Regards

>Hi David.
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>Grids do their own thing, I've had the alias switch simply by moving some other application window across them. This is well known to people trying to run a report while a grid still has focus.
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>Yes, that is true. Is there still aproblem when instantiating a modal form when a grid has focus? I think that this used to cause problems if the modal form tried to switch work areas - the currently selected work area would switch back to the grid's RecordSource.
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