Two common reasons.
The first is that you've used Date somewhere else in your database: a field
in a table, a control on a form, or something like that. Date is a reserved
word, and should never be used in anything you created in the database.
The other possibility is that your references are messed up.
This can be caused by differences in either the location or file version of
certain files between the machine where the application was developed, and
where it's being run (or the file missing completely from the target
machine). Such differences are common when new software is installed.
On the machine(s) where it's not working, open any code module (or open the
Debug Window, using Ctrl-G, provided you haven't selected the "keep debug
window on top" option). Select Tools | References from the menu bar. Examine
all of the selected references.
If any of the selected references have "MISSING:" in front of them, unselect
them, and back out of the dialog. If you really need the reference(s) you
just unselected (you can tell by doing a Compile All Modules), go back in
and reselect them.
If none have "MISSING:", select an additional reference at random, back out
of the dialog, then go back in and unselect the reference you just added. If
that doesn't solve the problem, try to unselect as many of the selected
references as you can (Access may not let you unselect them all), back out
of the dialog, then go back in and reselect the references you just
unselected. (NOTE: write down what the references are before you delete
them, because they'll be in a different order when you go back in)
--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
(no e-mails, please!)
Doug said:
I get the above error message when I use Date() in a query criteria to
retrieve records. This used to work in access 97. I am very dependant on
being able to do this as well as Date()-28 types of criteria. My database
relied heavily on these operations. The error message first occurred when I
Updated to XP using access 97. I then updated to access 2003 but the problem
persists. I tried creating new queries but I still can't use the Date()
expression. What can I do?
