Thanks for the suggestion Cindy and Cliff.

On your advice, I read up on cursors (I'm still an utter newbie when it

comes to VFP & XBase in general, but I have to get the app built ;) ) and

you are right... they are the right tool for this job... my only problem is:

create cursor myProjectSearch ;

(mystatus c (1), myrep L, myjobdate D, myloc c (50), mydesc c (50))

INSERT INTO myProjectSearch (myStatus,myrep,myjobdate,myloc,mydesc) VALUES

('T',.F.,date(),'Here', ;

'Project Management Software Testing')

SELECT myProjectSearch

this.recordsource = myProjectSearch && <- this generates a "variable

MYPROJECTSEARCH is not found" error

If I comment out the recordsource line, the grid gets populated with values

from another table.

How do I let the recordsource know that it is an alias to a cursor?