OWC10.DLL

[Richard]

I am running Access 2003 with Windows XP. I have installed "Microsoft Office
Access 2003 Inside Out" When I open a database I get the message "Your
Housing Reservations database or project contains a missing or broken
reference to the file "OWC10.DLL version1.1"
How do I fix this problem.
Thanks

 

[Tom Wickerath]

Hi Richard,

OWC stands for Office Web Components. It sounds like you have a missing
reference error:

Solving Problems with Library References (Allen Browne)
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-38.html

Access Reference Problems (Doug Steele)
http://www.accessmvp.com/djsteele/AccessReferenceErrors.html

The part that is curious to me is the reference to OWC10.DLL. Version 10 of
Access is Access 2002, not 2003. I would think, if anything, that you would
need a reference to OWC11.DLL. My PC has version 11.0.5531.0 of this file
available.


Tom Wickerath
Microsoft Access MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Tom
http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/expert_contributors.html
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[David W. Fenton]

The part that is curious to me is the reference to OWC10.DLL.
Version 10 of Access is Access 2002, not 2003. I would think, if
anything, that you would need a reference to OWC11.DLL. My PC has
version 11.0.5531.0 of this file available.

The part that is curious to *me* is why anyone would need a
reference to this library in any version of Access.

 

[Tom Wickerath]

I seem to recall that OWC was needed in order to display an Excel spreadsheet
within a data access page, but I could be wrong. Haven't subjected myself to
the misery of DAP's too much. I don't have a copy of the book referenced in
the first post, "Microsoft Office Access 2003 Inside Out", so it's hard to
say what's going on. I suppose it could be a left over reference that was not
removed by the author.

Richard:
Open any module, and then click on Tools > References. Try removing this
checked reference, which is likely marked MISSING. Click on the OK button.
Then click on Debug > Compile ProjectName (where ProjectName is the name of
the VBA project). If nothing appears to happen, and the next time you try to
click on Debug > Compile, the option is grayed out, then this is a good
thing. It means that you didn't need that reference in the first place.


Tom Wickerath
Microsoft Access MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Tom
http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/expert_contributors.html
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