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I bought the 2003 "Developer kit" about a year ago for about £70! At the time it was a nightmare trying to understand which software came with what and what you needed to make things work together (I had Office 2000 and stupidly thought the "Developer" part would work with it; it won't: I needed...

May be on to something: I use long file names, cutting them to 8 digits seems to have speeded things up. I need to experiment more...too late now but will post with more info over the next day or two...it could help others in the future. Skeletal

Hi all I have an Access 2003 db that works extremely well as a stand-alone application but I am keen to “split” it so that many users can operate it together. Accordingly I did the split and placed the tables on our server, and tried running the front end locally. Much to my horror, it takes...

Yes, that's a good idea if/when I run other apps from Access, or indeed any apps from any other (I also run Powerpoint and Word from Excel). Trouble is, I really like to have everything "all together" so to speak; I don't really like to have things "open". Mind you, I wonder if I could do a...

That's very interesting! You are correct, there are different versions in the references. I had a problem with this last year when we installed my application as run-time on a server and multi clients. As the run time stuff did its work, an error message appeared saying about references to Word...

Compact automatically when the user closes the front end. In the Access db window go to Tool/Options/General and tick the box "Compact on close". Skeletal

Check out my post about Access 2003 and 2000 bug. What you describe is similar to some of the odd things I've had happen. Do you have Access 2000 or know where you can use a copy? See whether you have the same problem running your db in 2000. Of course, you could have a bug in your...

I just tried the de-compile thing on the latest db and it seemed to work, but nothing like it says in the articles. There was hardly any reduction in size. I also found a copy of my “broken” db from last year. Decompiling that made it work again (so there looks to be something in this!), but...

Ah well, this is interesting and I’m really pleased you have these problems as well (err… if you see what I mean! I was beginning to think I was losing my marbles!) My first problem with Access 2003 occurred about a year ago, (the work 30 times, then crash). The only solution for me at that time...

As a follow up to anyone who has this problem, I have just built a db with one table having 2 fields, 3 records; one query; one form with a text box having DSUM(field1, query), and set the auto-start to open the form which has "maximise" as its only bit of code. Result...exactly as described...

Thank you again! Another useful link! Yes, after posting I started to realise what you meant (and may do this, I'm just irritated that this bug seems to exist...I got excited by the reserved word idea, but changing it didn't make it work either); I also wondered what would happen if I used a...

Thanks... for the info, particularly the link. Some of the comments in the de-compile stuff sound very familiar to problems I've had! I have been trying very hard myself to track this down (at least on this db) and I have found that it is the presence of a text box that has...

This must be a common question, but I can’t find an answer! I have a db built in Access 2003 but compatible with 2000. If I only use 2003 (to run the db) there is no problem; if I use only 2000 there is no problem. However, if I use 2003, shut it down and then try to use 2000, the first time...