MSOFFICE 2003 SP3 PROBLEMS

[Sven Van de Velde]

Microsoft,

May I strongly advise NOT to release further SP3 of MSOFFICE?

My MsAccess application developed using MsAccess 2003 SP2 is not working
anymore after the upgrade to Office SP3! The only resolution to my problems
were to UNINSTALL MsOffice 2003 and Reinstall to level SP2!!!!!!!!!!

I have searched SEVERAL NEWSGROUPS, including this one to find resolutions
to the following problems:

MSACCESS 2003 SP3 was crashing when I did the following actions (using my
SP2-level DB):

- Run certain Queries, which were NOT complicated at ALL!

- View certain tables. I have discovered that tables which contain columns
which use Combo Boxes (thus also queries) caused the crashing. So I HAD TO
REMOVE ALL THE COMBO BOX LOOKUPS FROM THE TABLE DEFINITIONS!!!!

- MOST of my FORMS where able to open for design, BUT WHEN SAVING THE FORM,
MSACCESS CRASHED. Thus, I was UNABLE to MODIFY my FORMS using MSACCESS 2003
SP3!


NOTE that in order to avoid useless advice which I have already tried to
resolve the above problems, which were ALL not successful, I list the
following actions I have already taken:

- use MSACCESS /DECOMPILE : Result: MSACCESS wasn't even able to open the
Database.

- Reimport EVERYTING into a NEW .MDB file using MSACCESS 2003 SP3: This did
not work neither. MSACCESS 2003 SP3 Crashed doing this as well!!!


Microsoft,
How are you going to solve my business problem? I mean, My MsAccess
application CANNOT RUN on SP3, which causes it to be IMPOSSIBLE for me to use
further the application on several platforms of clients of EDS!!!! I mean,
when our clients have Office SP3, I will not be able to deploy my database on
their systems anymore.

I am very upset about this.

Sven Van de Velde
EDS employee of EDS Belgium

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[Mark A. Sam]

Sven,

Don't dispare. Microsoft feels you brother. It fixed many of the crashing
problems with Version 2007. Access now only crashes when tables, forms, and
queries are open in design view then closed from design view, with the
exception of forms, which will sometimes allow you to close in design view,
but will crash sometimes when going from design view to form view, then
closing, except on Saturday from 2 AM to 6:37 AM and weekdays during
rushhour.

God Bless,

Mark A. Sam