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"Overflow" Error When Outputting Report to RTF Format

Article ID: 186470

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q186470

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

SYMPTOMS

Custom reports containing multiple subreports may produce the following error message when you export the report as Rich Text Format (RTF):

   Overflow

CAUSE

When you output a report with multiple subreports to Rich Text Format, a procedure is called from within Utility.mdb. Under certain circumstances, the procedure's calculation exceeds the range allowed for an integer and produces the error described in the "Symptoms" section.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

For additional information about SR-2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

151261 OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-2

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Access 97. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

Additional query words: snap shot publish pra

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbfix KB186470