Well I have the Dutch version of office 2007 - error message is:
"De expressie bevat een ongedefinieerde functie left" -- In english the error message is:
"Undefined function 'Left' in expression"
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Browse All TopicsThe LEFT sql function always worked and now in Access 2007 it gives me an error.
Example
Select LEFT (fieldname, 2 ) AS abc FROM myTable
Has anybody else had this problem and if so HOW did you solve this.
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i did try that (its LINKS) however no go.. I have found the issue though but it had nothing to do with the Left Function, even although thats the error message it gave, and the query that had the left function when run seperately gave that error message. The problem was that the application (custom access application) had a vba reference to the Word95 objects dll which due the upgrade of the company to office 2007 had been removed. ONce i removed the reference to this dll, there was no more issue with the Left in the select statement. WIERD...
Sorry for wasting your time angellll, but thank you anyway.
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by: angelIIIPosted on 2008-01-14 at 03:14:06ID: 20652206
>it gives me an error.
what error?