Microsoft KB Archive/248894

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

Article ID: 248894

Article Last Modified on 11/18/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q248894



Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.

This article applies only to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb).



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 ' '. 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.



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)



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.



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

Additional query words: pra trouble converting opening can't errors messages start starting

Keywords: kbbug kberrmsg kbpending KB248894

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