8 Responses to “Access 2003 & blank drop down list after installing SP3”

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   JPDurbin November 5th, 2007 at 3:52 pm

   I had to review the ACCESS tables to get the formatting correct after Office SP3 was pushed. The formats were set to “>”. Removing that resolved the issue.

   jp

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   Josh April 8th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

   Yeah, there were “>”s in all of my text-based field format fields too! Maybe SP3 put them in there! Thanks Andy!

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   Evan Young April 16th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

   I had this fixed – was the error re-introduced on the most recent patch Tuesday?

   Evan

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   andyparkes April 18th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

   Hi Evan

   I haven’t seen any problems at the moment

   Will keep an eye out

   Andy

5. 

   Derek King May 15th, 2008 at 8:58 am

   I have a multi user Access database and only one machine was showing blank dropdown boxes. It was the only machine running Office 2003 SP3. I have removed the “>” and all is OK. Many thanks
   Derek

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   Steve May 29th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

   I had the problem BEFORE installing SP3, but thanx for the solution

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   Nancy May 29th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

   I had the same problem after the SP3 update and your solution worked. Perhaps Microsoft should take a look at this. Nancy

8. 

   MobZ June 5th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

   I use this patch to solve mi problem.

   http:// support.microsoft.com/kb/943967
   “Description of the Access 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: December 18, 2007″

   http:// support.microsoft.com/kb/945674/
   “After you install Office 2003 SP3, you encounter various problems in an Access project when you work with a Bit data type column in a linked SQL Server table”