Access 2007 stops responding when you design a query in Design view

Consider the following scenario. In Microsoft Office Access 2007, you create a link to a query by using an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) database data source. The query joins two tables. Then, you create a query that uses the link. In this scenario, Access 2007 stops responding when you design the query in Design view.

How to obtain the hotfix

This issue is fixed in the Access 2007 Hotfix Package that is dated March 6, 2008. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.