You may receive an "Out of Memory" error message in Microsoft Access 95 or 97 when you print a selection from a form. The error will continue to pop up every minute or so until the program is re-run.

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This error occurs when one Microsoft Access process releases a Windows Graphics resource (GDI object) while a separate process still references that same Windows resource. When the second Access process tries to reference the Windows resource, the error described in the "Symptoms" section occurs.

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To resolve this problem for Microsoft Access 97, 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:

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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Access versions 7.0 and 97. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

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Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1.	Open the sample database Northwind.mdb.
2.	Open the Orders form.
3.	Click the Print Invoice button or Select Print and choose Selection.
4.	Click on the Grid Object. The text may appear distorted.
5.	If it is not, repeat step 3 again.

After a period of time you will receive the error described in the SYMPTOMS section.

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