access 2003 on Vista

[Joe Ball]

I put Office 2003 on my new Vista Home Premium system. Things seem to be
working, except I can not open reports in Access any more. The same file
works great on Windows XP. Any one else come have this same problem? I tried
some other Access files with the same results, looks like a problem with
Vista. Joe

 

[AGP]

thats rubbish. where is it written that MSAccess needs a printer??

AGP

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

any possibility that you don't have any printers installed?

It turns out that ms-access needs at least one printer installed to
function. You can even install something that you don't actually have...

I usually install of the many free "pdf" printers..as then that solves the
problem of always have a printer installed, and also gives me the ability to
create pdf's also...

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

thats rubbish. where is it written that MSAccess needs a printer??

Well, lets be a bit more clear here. You MUST have at least one printer
installed, else you can't run, or view reports.

So, it not that you can't install ms-access, you can't run, or view reports
if you don't have a printer installed.

here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224148/en-us
and
here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208553/en-us

It turns out that windows xp as a rule has the

Microsoft Office Document Writer installed on a each copy. So, since windows
xp came out, we RARELY see this problem...because there is a printer
installed by default...

And, for windows vista, there is the XPS document writer installed by
default.

however, the "concluding" here is that I am suggesting to the original
poster to check if a printer is installed. (perhaps the built in one was not
installed).

And, simply just trying a different printer can also help this case....