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You cannot open or convert an Access 97 database in Access 2000

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Symptoms

You find that you cannot open or convert one of your Access 97 databases in Access 2000. Either nothing happens at all (the operation fails silently), or you receive the following error messages:
An error occurred while loading '<form name>'. Do you want to continue loading the project?
When you click Yes or No, you receive the following error message:
The Visual Basic for Applications Project in the database is corrupt.
When you click OK the database is not opened or converted.

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Resolution

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
245025 OFF2000: How to Obtain and Install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a)

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.

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More information

For additional information about a similar error message and some possible workarounds, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
225946 ACC2000: Corrupted VBA Project Error When You Try to Convert a Database

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Keywords: KB248894, kbpending, kberrmsg, kbbug

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Article Info
Article ID : 248894
Revision : 2
Created on : 11/18/2004
Published on : 11/18/2004
Exists online : False
Views : 302