"Overflow" Error When Outputting Report to RTF Format

Custom reports containing multiple subreports may produce the following error message when you export the report as Rich Text Format (RTF):

When you output a report with multiple subreports to Rich Text Format, a procedure is called from within Utility.mdb. Under certain circumstances, the procedure's calculation exceeds the range allowed for an integer and produces the error described in the "Symptoms" section.

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

For additional information about SR-2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

151261  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/151261/EN-US/ ) OFF97: How to Obtain and Install MS Office 97 SR-2

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Access 97. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).