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bradlyokelley
Dec 06, 2021Copper Contributor
Access export to rtf syntax error
I have Office 365 and when trying to export from Access to a Word doc (rtf) I receive the following error: "Microsoft Access can't complete the Output operation" The Visual Basic code you en...
Cindy_Sweeny
Aug 02, 2022Copper Contributor
I feel your pain, Bradly. I just started having the same problem. I have a report that I've been using for over ten years. I right click on the report, select Export, then Word RTF file. There is no code created by me. This is standard MS code. There's nothing to compile or add error handling to. I choose my file name and destination then click OK. I get this error:
This routine is repeated from more than one workstation and more than one database. To be clear, this is a new error as of Monday, August 1st, 2022 and I have performed this routine hundreds of time over multiple years. It's puzzling and frustrating to get an error for a standard routine. I'm going to reload Access to see if that clears the problem.