i can't add anything to the object names in access 2003

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jzh1639

When I used access 2003 today, I found that I can't add anything to the
object names in access 2003 when using wizards offered by the system.The
only thing I can do is to delete part of the names. Why?
 
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Larry Linson

jzh1639 said:
When I used access 2003 today, I found that I can't add anything to the
object names in access 2003 when using wizards offered by the system.The
only thing I can do is to delete part of the names. Why?
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If you really want an answer, you are going to have to be more specific in
your question. I've been doing Access for a long time, and in the computer
business even longer, and I don't know what you are describing, much less
what you are asking.

There are good suggestions on effective use of newsgroups in the FAQ at
http://www.mvps.org/access/netiquette.htm. In my experience, the questions
that are most likely to get good answers are both concise and precise.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
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jzh1639

There are two Accesses in my computer.One is Access 2003.It is installed
together with the other Microsoft Office products.The second is a green
version of Access,which is extracted from a package to be used by any
user.That is to say,the second omits the process of installation. When I
open an Access database,it is opened by Access 2003 autumatically.In Access
2003,the database objects names is given by system,which I can't add
anything to the names.But when I select the green version of Access to open
it,I can rename the objects names.

Perhaps it is the differences between the two Accesses that cause the
problems.

When I choose the open method of an Access database,the list consists of the
two Accesses.Microsoft Access(great version) appears bright,while Microsoft
Office Access appears dimmed.
 
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George

Unfortunately, the term "Green Access" is not in common usage (at least this
is the first time I've heard it.) so it's not clear what you actually have
there.

Perhaps you could look up the version information for your "green" version
by clicking "Help-->About"

George
 
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Larry Linson

I, too, am puzzled by what a "green version" of Access is, what is implied
by that green version being "extracted from a package" -- do you possibly
mean "runtime support" that was distributed with a database for users who do
not have Access installed? I'm also puzzled by any version "automatically
naming database objects". I have never observed a version that behaved as
you describe -- I don't doubt at all that it is doing what you say, but just
have never seen or heard of similar behavior.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
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jzh1639

In my words,"green version" means the Access system is free of
installation,which acts as a dos command like attrib.exe.As we all
know,attrib.exe is a dos file and can be copied to another computer to run
without the process of installation.

The "green version" of Access in my computer is downloaded from the Internet
as a package bound together by winrar.After I unzip the package to a
directory,I just need to tell the mdb files where the green version of
Access is located.Then the mdb file is automatically opened by the green
version of Access.


By "automatically naming database objects", I want to mean that the objects
names are given by the Access system as default.
 
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Larry Linson

jzh1639 said:
The "green version" of Access in my computer is
downloaded from the Internet as a package bound
together by winrar.After I unzip the package to a
directory,I just need to tell the mdb files where the
green version of Access is located.Then the mdb
file is automatically opened by the green
version of Access.
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I'd never heard the term before. I've not heard of an installed Access being
"bound together into a package by WinRAR", either. Access is a licensed
product, except the runtime may be distributed with a database. I do not
have a warm feeling that your "green version" is a legal copy, though it
might be.

One does not "tell an MDB" where Access is, one executes Access from where
it is, and provides it the path to the database (MDB/MDE/ACCDB/ACCDE/ACCDR)
that it is to execute.
By "automatically naming database objects", I want
to mean that the objects names are given by the
Access system as default.
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Do you mean like "Form1" for a new Form, or "Report1" for a new Report? If
you can't change those, but you can generate new Forms and Reports, I just
don't know what you have with your "green version"... perhaps a copy of an
installed Access or an installed Access Runtime with security partially
broken.

As I am not aware of such versions, or such behavior, and have to way to
even try to reproduce the situation, I'll have to "bow out" and see if
there's anyone else who can help you. Sorry.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
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