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  • Zammy
    #1

    report trouble on Dell laptop

    I wrote a program in Access 2000 for a co-worker. She just got a new
    Dell Latitude laptop and when she opens the db, none of the reports
    will open. They show up in the report section with the correct names
    but when you try to open them in normal view or design view they will
    not open. The laptop is running Windows XP with Access 2000. Does
    anyone have any ideas as to what I can check or try to get this
    working?
    I opened the same db on my Dell laptop at home running Windows XP and
    Access 2007 and everything works fine. I feel it must be some setting
    on the laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    • Phil Stanton
      #2
      Re: report trouble on Dell laptop

      Try creating a new database and importing everything in to it.

      Sometimes works, and sometimes stops at a corrupt report/form which you then
      have to re-create

      Phil


      "Zammy" <j1m@zamjohn.co mwrote in message
      news:f43a3f37-c59b-49c0-a4ef-f2e0a6e779ee@u6 5g2000hsc.googl egroups.com...
      >I wrote a program in Access 2000 for a co-worker. She just got a new
      Dell Latitude laptop and when she opens the db, none of the reports
      will open. They show up in the report section with the correct names
      but when you try to open them in normal view or design view they will
      not open. The laptop is running Windows XP with Access 2000. Does
      anyone have any ideas as to what I can check or try to get this
      working?
      I opened the same db on my Dell laptop at home running Windows XP and
      Access 2007 and everything works fine. I feel it must be some setting
      on the laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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        • Allen Browne
          #3
          Re: report trouble on Dell laptop

          She has no printer installed, or there is a problem with the driver of the
          default printer.

          Access uses the printer driver metrics to calculate the layout of the
          report. If there is none, or if it is faulty, it is not able to calculate
          the report, so nothing works.

          Install another printer driver - a completely different kind than any
          existing one.

          --
          Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia
          Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
          Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

          "Zammy" <j1m@zamjohn.co mwrote in message
          news:f43a3f37-c59b-49c0-a4ef-f2e0a6e779ee@u6 5g2000hsc.googl egroups.com...
          >I wrote a program in Access 2000 for a co-worker. She just got a new
          Dell Latitude laptop and when she opens the db, none of the reports
          will open. They show up in the report section with the correct names
          but when you try to open them in normal view or design view they will
          not open. The laptop is running Windows XP with Access 2000. Does
          anyone have any ideas as to what I can check or try to get this
          working?
          I opened the same db on my Dell laptop at home running Windows XP and
          Access 2007 and everything works fine. I feel it must be some setting
          on the laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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