Question missing or broken references?

[YouMust]

We have had a new piece of hardware installed to test products.
This was made by a third party and enters data into access.
when ever i open access on this machine i get

your Microsoft database or project contain missing or broken references to MSWORD.OLB v8.6

is this simply due to the fact word is not installed on this pc?


Kind regards

 

[Minty]

Probably, if you open the VBA code window and select tools, then references you will see any missing references listed.

 

[YouMust]

thanks, yep just checked,
missing ref is msword object library, any way to suppress this message on this one device?

 

[Minty]

If you aren't using the code that references word then comment it out on the database on that machine. or change the code in Access to use late binding. (Google will help with that)

 

[YouMust]

ah well i found an old ms word, installed that everything's ok now

 

[gemma-the-husky]

it sounds a bit sloppy, assuming that a user will have MS Word installed.

 

[YouMust]

yes it does sound that way huh.

We've had this database for over 8 years without this issue ever showing up as everyone has to have word and all the other office products installed, otherwise their PC would be almost useless here.

It only showed up in this case as a new A.T.E arrived which didn't have word already installed.
But it does need word so the operators can open the version log which is in MSword format.
when we purchase new PC's they have office products pre installed.