Reports will not run on my PC

M

msumner

I have XP Pro, Access XP - if I create a database and build a report access
stops responding when I try the report. All other functions work fine as
long as I do not run a report. I can copy the db to another pc and the
report runs there. I have recently moved to this XP machine. The old user
says they had no problems. I would appreciate any help.
 
J

Jörg Ackermann

msumner said:
I have XP Pro, Access XP - if I create a database and build a report
access stops responding when I try the report. All other functions
work fine as long as I do not run a report. I can copy the db to
another pc and the report runs there. I have recently moved to this
XP machine. The old user says they had no problems. I would
appreciate any help.
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Install a standard printer on LPT1.

Acki
 
D

Dirk Goldgar

msumner said:
I have XP Pro, Access XP - if I create a database and build a report
access stops responding when I try the report. All other functions
work fine as long as I do not run a report. I can copy the db to
another pc and the report runs there. I have recently moved to this
XP machine. The old user says they had no problems. I would
appreciate any help.
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Do you have a default printer defined for your system?
 
D

Dirk Goldgar

msumner said:
Yes, I have a default - it is a network printer not local.
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Can you verify that other applications on this PC print to that printer
without any problems?
 
M

msumner

Yes, no problems printing. The report does not generate at all. I see a
box where the report is to display, but Access stops responding.
 
D

Dirk Goldgar

Hmm, that's odd. One thing worth doing is checking your references,
though I don't see exactly how a broken reference would affect one
particular report. Still, often when databases don't work on one
particular machine, it's because of a broken or missing reference. See
if the steps outlined here help:


http://members.rogers.com/douglas.j.steele/AccessReferenceErrors.html

If they don't, you might try installing a local print driver, and see
what happens if you set your report to print there.
 
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