[AccessD] OLE Server blah blah...

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri May 20 01:15:56 CDT 2011


It often occurs when you have a OLE object field in your database with various images, 
documents etc embedded and the program that is set as the default for that type of file is not 
the same as the one used on the PC  that saved the object.

-- 
Stuart

On 20 May 2011 at 14:15, Darryl Collins wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
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> A couple of my users (vs everyone else) are getting the following
> error
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> "The OLE server isn't registered: to register the OLE Server reinstall
> it"
> 
> Now I have been digging around Google for a couple of days, but none
> of the solutions seem to fit what is going on here.  It is a known
> issue with A2003 when using ADP etc, but I am using a regular old mdb
> / mde setup with no active data pages or anything too weird.  This
> sort of error is usually related to a graphic from what I understand,
> but the singal graphic seems to be ok as well.  I do have a couple of
> calendar controls (Active X) so that is a suspect.
> 
> On the corporate PC's only two users out of many are having this
> problem.
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> Open to ideas if anyone else has experience with this.  I am thinking
> running a repair on their Office 2003 and seeing what happens.
> 
> bah. annoying.
> 
> cheers
> Darryl.
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