MS OWC Control Issues

[toddbailey]

Hey All,

I'm using the OWC spreadsheet control on an Access form, on 5 machines no problems, but on one XP machine when I open the form the control shows up blank.

when I open the form to edit on the suspect machine I get a strange error, object is missing.

I re-downloaded and restalled the office web components but no joy

any ideas?

thx...

 

[MarkK]

You may need to register the owc11.dll file. Google 'regsvr' or 'regsvr32' and see what you get.

 

[toddbailey]

Thanks for the response.

I found the problem, MS quit supporting this several years ago.

The issue I am facing is well documented and has no usable fix. I've moved on to using a datagrid control that supports .net and access 20xx and unlike the MS product is well documented.

Let this be a warning to anyone else who wants to use the Spreadsheet control, it may work, it may not. don't expect MS to help.

 

[MarkK]

Did you copy the owc??.dll to the target machine and regsvr it? Did that fail? Is that what you are saying? When MS stops supporting a product, that doesn't make it retroactively stop working.

 

[mdlueck]

When MS stops supporting a product, that doesn't make it retroactively stop working.

It does not!?!?!? I thought Bill Gates figured that technique out years ago!