CJ
Fri May 09 13:46:33 PDT 2008
Fantastic, that was it!
I had SP3 on both machines but neither had the HotFix. I don't have updates
auto installed but I don't recall seeing anything about this fix from MS.
Or, there may have been so many that I quit paying attention to them.
Have a great weekend.
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Thanks for taking the time!
CJ
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"George Nicholson" <GeorgeNJunk@Junkmsn.com> wrote in message
news:u8qLubfsIHA.5872@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
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> Check Microsoft/Office Update. I bet your XP machine has Office 2003 SP3
> installed but not the hotfix (and your Vista machine has either both or
> neither).
>
> What you describe was a problem created by SP3 and subsequently "fixed".
>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945674/en-us
>
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> HTH,
> George
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>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:3A397E3E-0E8A-483C-8178-0313CC51363D@microsoft.com...
>> The 'common controls' dll for that in Access 07 is probably different
>> from the one in 03. I would locate the comctl32.dll used by Access 07,
>> and put it in the path for your search dialog in XP (not system32, but
>> the Access .exe folder.) You might also accomplish this by installing the
>> Runtime files for Access 07.
>> Access 2007 Download: Access Runtime:
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dd9ae78d9-9dc6-4b38-9fa6-2c745a175aed%26DisplayLang%3den
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>> Mark L. Ferguson
>> .
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>> "CJ" <private@newsgroups.com> wrote in message
>> news:20B7A98C-2758-4183-B504-EE43AA9132EC@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi Groupies:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure which newsgroup this question belongs to, sorry.
>>>
>>> I have an Access 2003 database that was built on my Vista laptop. This
>>> laptop also has Access 2007 installed but that version has not been used
>>> at all to work with this database. My other computer has Windows XP and
>>> only has Access 2003 installed.
>>>
>>> In a couple of forms I have combo boxes that are used for searches. On
>>> my Vista machine, these searches work fine, on my XP machine, the
>>> searches work, but no data is "visible" when you push the down arrow.
>>> The list still shows the correct number of rows as if the data was
>>> there, but no words show up so you have to guess at what you are
>>> selecting.
>>>
>>> The query behind the search boxes works fine and if you try the query by
>>> itself all of the data shows up properly.
>>>
>>> Not realizing what was going on, I spent a couple of hours trying to fix
>>> the searches on my XP machine. I changed formatting, rebuilt the query,
>>> everything I could think of. There was no way that I could make this
>>> thing work on XP yet no problems on Vista.
>>>
>>> What is the deal????
>>> Any insight?......Anybody.......
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks for taking the time!
>>>
>>> CJ
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>>> Know thyself, know thy limits....know thy newsgroups!
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