Dear Brett, Thanks again for your time and patience.
In actual fact, I had already tried doing exactly as you suggested,ie, having split the database and verified that the first instance of FE works, to copy that FE to the other machine(s). It was at that point that things went wrong. I could not open the copy of the verified working FE. I tried removing and reinstalling Office and the original wrong path message went away but as soon as the FE did start to open the whole thing froze. I spoke to a tek acquaintance on this and he tried to explain somehting about W98 memory leaks interfering with Office. He suggested that I delete and redo the partition and do a clean install of everything from scratch...and I'm happy to say that it worked. With one curious exception: the fresh copy of the FE had full functionality immediately but it "lost" ALL report formats related to printing.. margins, end of page etc etc. I tried copying again and it has done the same thing. Not the end of the world but a pain, nonetheless. Again, said tek friend just blamed W98..... Frankly the whole thing is beyond me and as it is actually working I don't feel inclined to spend that much time in trying to understand what was going on. That said, I wonder if you have come across similar behaviour? Thanks again, George PS: Identical installation of W98 and Office 2K (from same disks) working on first PC without a hitch. --- In [email protected], Brett Collings <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..> wrote: > > Goerge, you do it once on the one MDB that you CAN open and then > distribute that file to the other machines. Once you have that address > in one file, it will work everywhere on your local network ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/q7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ms_access/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
