If you're using the form with "enter using" then it WOULD come up blank! It's meant to add new rows to the DBGrid, not display rows that already exist, or am I missing something? From the designer, you're getting an "edit using", not an enter.
Karen > To further clarify. When the form is run from the designer, data is > displayed in the DB Grid. When it is run from the database explorer, the > R> prompt or another form, no data is displayed in the DB Grid. Not > initially, when the form comes up (with data in the work table), nor > when the button is pressed to add an item.

