Debug Error! abnormal program termination (resolved)

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Stephen

We had the following error with an access 2003 database:

Debug Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE
abnormal program termination

Just thought I would share this with the ng. I saw others were having
the same problem. It turns out a bad printer driver was installed on
our server. Only people who had the printer in question as thier
default had the problem. You couldn't open form or report code
modules, or a report in design or preview. Once we selected another
printer driver on the server (printer was a HP 2200) it worked. We
were using a PCL 6 when the problem started occurring and changed it
back to a PCL, which fixed the problem. Whoever is having the problem,
check their default printer and that will point you to the problem
driver.
 
Stephen, thank you for posting this.

Access does indeed use the metrics from the printer driver to calculate the
layout for reports, so a faulty printer driver can cause it to crash.

Hopefully your post will help someone in the future.
 
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