Access 2000 "The Wizard is Unable to Create Your Report"

Can you provide some more background:
Are you using more than 1 table (or query) in the report?  Are you trying to create a chart?  Did you try the repair and compact?  Do you have all the add-ins for the DB that you need?

Sorry, this is a simple 1 table report that simply displays all the fields in the table sorted on the key. There are no add ins listed in the addin manager, and further I would not know which one(s) I might need in any event. I did run repair and compact and it made no difference in the behaviour. Can you offer any further suggestions or advice? Thanks, Bill

I would re-run the set-up program by going to control panel/add remove programs/
Choose custom installation and try installing all of the components for Access.  To do this, tell it you want to run everything from your hard disk.
I dont know if this article will help, but give it a try:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q208/5/53.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=The%20Wizard%20is%20Unable%20to%20Create%20Your%20Report&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=ACC

Thanks, I will give it a try, but it will have to be later this week. It is dinner time here and I am heading out of town in the a.m. I will keep you posted on the results when they are in. Thanks Again, Bill

Well, I have loaded all of the available options onto my HD, and that made no difference. So I completely uninstalled Access 2000 from the PC, then re-installed it as you suggested: custom, selecting all options installed and run from the HD. Unfortunately, this still made no difference in the symptoms. I'm no genius, but this is just a small, simple database base from a tutorial for Access I found on the internet, and I don't see anything about the construction of the db that could be causing this problem. I beleive it must be a bug or fluke of some sort. Too bad there is no indication in the error message of what the cause might be. I viewed the knowledge base report you indicated, and although that scenario does involve the same error message, it is not what is happening in this situation. I can construct the report manually, and this case it is not that big of a deal, but very quickly the report wizard will be a big time saver on the creation of reports, and I will not want to live without it. I appreciate your input, PsychoDazey, I wish there were more input from others so as to provide other leads to followup on. Thanks, Bill

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check out the link above to the microsoft site.. This fix for this is to set (or reset up) your default printer.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q208/5/53.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=The%20Wizard%20is%20Unable%20to%20Create%20Your%20Report&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=ACC