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Drinks I was waiting tables in a noisy lobster restaurant in Maine when a vacationing Southerner stumped me with a drink order. I approached the bartender. "Have you ever heard of a drink called 'Seven Young Blondes'?" I asked. He admitted he'd never heard of it, and grabbed a drink guidebook...

A woman found herself standing at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter greeted her and said, "These are the Gates to Heaven, my dear. But you must do one more thing before you can enter." The woman was very excited, and asked of St. Peter what she must do. "Spell a word," St. Peter replied. "What...

A Business Lesson ! MONKEY BUSINESS Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers, knowing there were many monkeys, went to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and, as...

I think my data base is ok now. I have run it 10 times (Repair & compact) without the error message mentioned in this thread. I am 95% sure that the problem is solved. My problem may have been caused by not installing MS Office 2007 correctly. I opened an ACCESS data base. Clicked on...

This is my observation. When I manually do 'compact & repair', it works without problem. It is the 'compact on close' what is giving me problem. When I close the data base, this error shows up (not all the time, but most of the time).

Thanks. I will try that.

I did it. I am still getting the message. Thanks for your reply.

I use ACCESS 2007 with Windows XP. I have a big data base (in terms of size). When I compact the data base, I get a message "Invalid data base object reference." When I click on Help key, I see error # 3276. I am not hitting the 2GB limit. Data base is .MDB and uses 2000 file format. I did...

Good one. I enjoyed it.

Thanks to all who responded. I was able to use Bob Larson's solution.

In ACCESS 2003, I was able to compact a live data base (single user) with a command button (using SENDKEYS command). ACCESS 2007 does not use sendkeys. Is there any way to compact an ACCESS 2007 using a command button on the Menu?

Thanks. I figured it out.

Is it possible to set up jobs to be run Monday thru Friday (skipping Saturday and Sunday) using Windows Scheduler? If yes, how do I do it? I would like see instructions. Thanks in advance.

Happy Birthday Cindy! Your postings are very thoughtful and mature. Enjoyed reading them.

Happy Birthday George! Hope you celebrated it real good. You are not only an ACCESS VIP in this forum, but has also shown great maturity and dignity in your water cooler postings. I enjoyed reading your postings.

Bambi, a blonde in her fourth year as a UCLA freshman, sat in her US government class. The professor asked Bambi if she knew what Roe vs. Wade was about. Bambi pondered the question then finally said, "That was the decision George Washington had to make before he crossed the Delaware."

A cop stops a drunkard and asks him: cop: Where are you going? Drunkard: I'm going to listen to the lecture about the harm of the drunkenness and alcoholism. cop: At night? And who will give a lecture? Drunkard: My wife and mother-in-law!

Two old men had been best friends for years, and they both live to their early 90's, when one of them suddenly falls deathly ill. His friend comes to visit him on his deathbed, and they're reminiscing about their long friendship, when the dying man's friend asks, "Listen, when you die, do me a...

These days all the stock market actions can be summed into 2 categories: Short selling and short covering.

Money matters A long time ago, a visitor from out of town came to a tour in Manhattan. At the end of the tour they took him to the financial district. When they arrived to Battery Park the guide showed him some nice yachts anchoring there, and said, "Here are the yachts of our bankers and...