No error on my machine, but on others?

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I work in a small, networked office doing access database
development. The main database is located on a central
server, but I use a local copy to do my development until
a certain project is finished. I have designed several
reports, that when ran locally on my machine, OR from the
network server on my machine, work perfectly fine, print
out exactly like they should with the correct data and
calculations, etc etc...

However, when I go to a coworkers computer to try and run
the exact same reports, every time I try it gives this
debug error:

Run-time error '3075':

Function is not available in expressions in query
expression 'Left(VENDOR_ID, 3)'.

The thing is is that neither my query or my report has
this function used in it anywhere...

Anyone have any idea as to what might be causing this
problem?

Thanks.
 
Could be that the references are messed up on the other PCs. If
references are messed up, functions may not work correctly and you can get
that Invalid argument message then, too.

Try following these steps (from a post by Douglas Steele, MVP):

This can be caused by differences in either the location or file version of
certain files between the machine where the application was developed, and
where it's being run (or the file missing completely from the target
machine). Such differences are common when new software is installed.

On the machine(s) where it's not working, open any code module (or open the
Debug Window, using Ctrl-G, provided you haven't selected the "keep debug
window on top" option). Select Tools | References from the menu bar. Examine
all of the selected references.

If any of the selected references have "MISSING:" in front of them, unselect
them, and back out of the dialog. If you really need the reference(s) you
just unselected (you can tell by doing a Compile All Modules), go back in
and reselect them.

If none have "MISSING:", select an additional reference at random, back out
of the dialog, then go back in and unselect the reference you just added. If
that doesn't solve the problem, try to unselect as many of the selected
references as you can (Access may not let you unselect them all), back out
of the dialog, then go back in and reselect the references you just
unselected. (NOTE: write down what the references are before you delete
them, because they'll be in a different order when you go back in)

For far more than you could ever want to know about this problem, check out
http://members.rogers.com/douglas.j.steele/AccessReferenceErrors.html
 
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