niobium@gmail.com

Rather unfortunately MS has not indicated a time-table for a solution
yet. Some folks have suggested changing bit fields to smallint or
similar to handle the signed/unsigned problem (and using Yes/No combo
boxes or Option Frames where you can set the value explicitly, rather
than relying on checkbox defaults). There's a KB article for this, but
the work-arounds listed are nothing system-wide implementable: they
involve things like "click on another record" and the like. The
article is here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943967

You can't uninstall SP3 but you CAN deinstall Office 2003, then
reinstall, then use the downloads page to patch to SP2. I am in the
process of trying to find out how far I can patch after SP2 (which is
from 2005, unfortunately...) to not hit the bug but get as many
security fixes as possible. It's hard to tell.

The good news is simply uninstalling Office 2003 will not negate your
activation; that will remain in place. If you have remote clients I
realize that's cold comfort.

Someone else mentioned in another thread that a good list of known SP3
bugs is here:

http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html

Good luck.


--Nb41

On Dec 7, 1:06 pm, Todd Tharp <Todd.Tharp.318...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
> Has anyone heard of a resolution to this problem? SP3is uninstallable
> and I have a few end users who have it installed. List boxes with
> columns containing currency values truncate the decimals and remove the
> dollar symbol. Machines withoutSP3display properly. The row source
> pulls that field straight from the table and gets the formatting from
> the table.
>
> This forum is the only thing google returned regarding this problem.
> Please email: eng.ufl.edu (todd ~at- ) if anyone has any information on
> a solution to this problem, please contact me.
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