> > thanks - but it appears my settings are as I need them if I
> > just add a popup menu F2 shortcut to the grid which just
> > sets IB_Query.Edit; then all is as I need
>
> Curious. Was there something else on the form trying to grab
> the F2 before the grid saw it? (Or do we have a potential
> problem with the grid not seeing F2 when it should?)
>
> --
> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing

it appears to me that the grid was just not responding to F2 at all. There
is nothing else on the form. no key preview. keydown events etc. I've done
it again on a blank project and form with the grid only and F2 does nothing
Alan