Check Microsoft/Office Update. I bet your XP machine has Office 2003 SP3
installed but not the hotfix (and your Vista machine has either both or
neither).

What you describe was a problem created by SP3 and subsequently "fixed".
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945674/en-us[/url]

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HTH,
George


"Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> The 'common controls' dll for that in Access 07 is probably different from
> the one in 03. I would locate the comctl32.dll used by Access 07, and put
> it in the path for your search dialog in XP (not system32, but the Access
> .exe folder.) You might also accomplish this by installing the Runtime
> files for Access 07.
> Access 2007 Download: Access Runtime:
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dd9ae78d9-9dc6-4b38-9fa6-2c745a175aed%26DisplayLang%3den[/url]
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> "CJ" <private@newsgroups.com> wrote in message
> news:20B7A98C-2758-4183-B504-EE43AA9132EC@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Hi Groupies:
>>
>> I'm not sure which newsgroup this question belongs to, sorry.
>>
>> I have an Access 2003 database that was built on my Vista laptop. This
>> laptop also has Access 2007 installed but that version has not been used
>> at all to work with this database. My other computer has Windows XP and
>> only has Access 2003 installed.
>>
>> In a couple of forms I have combo boxes that are used for searches. On my
>> Vista machine, these searches work fine, on my XP machine, the searches
>> work, but no data is "visible" when you push the down arrow. The list
>> still shows the correct number of rows as if the data was there, but no
>> words show up so you have to guess at what you are selecting.
>>
>> The query behind the search boxes works fine and if you try the query by
>> itself all of the data shows up properly.
>>
>> Not realizing what was going on, I spent a couple of hours trying to fix
>> the searches on my XP machine. I changed formatting, rebuilt the query,
>> everything I could think of. There was no way that I could make this
>> thing work on XP yet no problems on Vista.
>>
>> What is the deal????
>> Any insight?......Anybody.......
>>
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>> Thanks for taking the time!
>>
>> CJ
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