You all have probably made a typing, or other input, error.  In this case I made a typing mistake while entering the Data Type for a Test Table, as can be seen in the above screen capture.

And you all know to simply click on OK, the error box goes away, and you can correct the typing (or other) error.

I have used Access since at least 2003 and encountered now an error that I have never experienced before.  And that error is that there is nothing that I can do to make the error dialogue box close.  My only solution has been to end Access.exe via Task Manager.

This unrecoverable error also occurs in Access with other circumstances.  I have not noticed this problem in Word, Excel, or Outlook.  My version of Access is 16.0.12827.20336.

If anyone else is running this version of Access, could you create the same error as in my example and let me know whether you obtain the same result.  For the rest of you, any suggestions as to what to do?  I have tried not making any more errors, but this is sometimes difficult to achieve.

Thank you for your help.

This is my initial entry into this Community.

Wes Jan

You all have probably made a typing, or other input, error.  In this case I made a typing mistake while entering the Data Type for a Test Table, as can be seen in the above screen capture.

And you all know to simply click on OK, the error box goes away, and you can correct the typing (or other) error.

I have used Access since at least 2003 and encountered now an error that I have never experienced before.  And that error is that there is nothing that I can do to make the error dialogue box close.  My only solution has been to end Access.exe via Task Manager.

This unrecoverable error also occurs in Access with other circumstances.  I have not noticed this problem in Word, Excel, or Outlook.  My version of Access is 16.0.12827.20336.

If anyone else is running this version of Access, could you create the same error as in my example and let me know whether you obtain the same result.  For the rest of you, any suggestions as to what to do?  I have tried not making any more errors, but this is sometimes difficult to achieve.

Thank you for your help.

This is my initial entry into this Community.

Wes Jan

Wes,

This is getting more interesting. Yes your locations for the versions are the same places I looked for mine except the Office version is also located in file/account/update options. I see you installed the 64-bit version which probably explains the version differences. I have the 64-bit Windows OS but I installed the 32-bit Office. I heeded the MS warnings about some external apps (and I think browsers) not compatible with the 64-bit version. But still with the differences in our systems and software versions we still have the same problem! Sorry I don't know what it means. I wonder if MS monitors these discussions.

Bert