> No, I have not NOEDIT checked for any field; although, I have
> READONLY checked for some of them (those I don't want to be edited by
> the user on grid, they are changed by code).

just remember - the query drives the grid - not the other way around. And if
you set this in the query, you have to unset it, then refresh the query, to
use the field in code as you want to.
Alan