Access 97 functions not available on re-install

[John Smith]

My wife is coding an Access 97 app. She's a newbie to Access and programming
in general, while I don't want to know anything about Access.

Last night she asked me to uninstall Office 97 SR-2 because she wanted me to
install Office XP so she could 'upgrade' her Access app. Being the good
husband that I am, I instantly complied with her request. No sooner than I
had uninstalled 97, she had second thoughts and wanted me to reinstall
Office 97 because, she reasoned, that she wanted both Office 97 and Office
XP installed on the same machine.

The original Office 97 install was in the default directory \program
files\Microsoft\Office. When I reinstalled Office 97, I did the install into
\program files\microsoft\Office97. I have not yet installed Office XP.

When I finished the re-install of Office 97, I asked my wife to test her app
to make sure everything was working correctly before I installed Office XP.
She began to test her app and found some things were broken.

She now gets the following errors on queries, whereas before when working
with the original Office 97 install none of these errors occurred:

Function isn't available in expressions in query expression 'Format(Now(),
"yyyy")
or
Function isn't available in expressions in query expression 'Format([field],
"mm")
or
Function isn't available in expressions in query expression
'Format(

.[field], "mmmm")

where the actual values of table and field names are supplied.



1) Any idea why it worked with the original install and not with the
re-install of Office 97?

2) Should I have re-installed in the default directory rather than doing the
re-install in ...\Office97?

3) Anything else to look for?

TIA

 

[Ken Snell]

Sounds as if some refernences are "broken". From info posted By Douglas
Steele, MVP:

Two common reasons.

The first is that you've used Date somewhere else in your database: a field
in a table, a control on a form, or something like that. Date is a reserved
word, and should never be used in anything you created in the database.

The other possibility is that your references are messed up.

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
http://members.rogers.com/douglas.j.steele/AccessReferenceErrors.html


--
Ken Snell
<MS ACCESS MVP>

My wife is coding an Access 97 app. She's a newbie to Access and programming
in general, while I don't want to know anything about Access.

Last night she asked me to uninstall Office 97 SR-2 because she wanted me to
install Office XP so she could 'upgrade' her Access app. Being the good
husband that I am, I instantly complied with her request. No sooner than I
had uninstalled 97, she had second thoughts and wanted me to reinstall
Office 97 because, she reasoned, that she wanted both Office 97 and Office
XP installed on the same machine.

The original Office 97 install was in the default directory \program
files\Microsoft\Office. When I reinstalled Office 97, I did the install into
\program files\microsoft\Office97. I have not yet installed Office XP.

When I finished the re-install of Office 97, I asked my wife to test her app
to make sure everything was working correctly before I installed Office XP.
She began to test her app and found some things were broken.

She now gets the following errors on queries, whereas before when working
with the original Office 97 install none of these errors occurred:

Function isn't available in expressions in query expression 'Format(Now(),
"yyyy")
or
Function isn't available in expressions in query expression 'Format([field],
"mm")
or
Function isn't available in expressions in query expression
'Format(

.[field], "mmmm")

where the actual values of table and field names are supplied.



1) Any idea why it worked with the original install and not with the
re-install of Office 97?

2) Should I have re-installed in the default directory rather than doing the
re-install in ...\Office97?

3) Anything else to look for?

TIA