Format function not working in queries?

[Guest]

I recently updated a MS Access application that has most queries embedded in
VB. I made the updates and tested them on my computer and they worked fine.
I sent the updated application to a collegue and it worked fine on his
computer as well. We then installed it on a third computer and it didn't
work. I subsequently found that it did not work because the Format function
was not being recognized in the queries. The odd thing is that an earlier
version of the application does work on this third computer.

Does anyone know why such a thing would happen? It seems terribly
inconsistent. Is there some setting that could cause this?

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

If any of the database's references are messed up on a PC -- you can get
that error.

Try following these steps (from a post by Douglas Steele, MVP):

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)

For far more than you could ever want to know about this problem, check out
ttp://www.accessmvp.com/djsteele/AccessReferenceErrors.html