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Asked: 2026-05-11T22:03:30+00:00

Following the instruction found here: Insert a datasheet into a form I get an

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Following the instruction found here: Insert a datasheet into a form I get an error when trying to insert a query as a datasheet in an Access Project (SQL Server 2005 backend)

The form name you entered doesn’t follow Microsoft Office Access object-naming rules

I selected the view View.dbo.viewname from the dropdown in ‘Source Object’ and the above error occurred as soon as I did that. If I take off View.dbo.viewname, it saves, but then I can’t see the datasheet data. I want to add the view as it contains subdatasheets.

Wrapping it in brackets, e.g. [View.dbo.viewname] or View[.]dbo[.]viewname (as dots are apparently not allowed, although the link suggests otherwise) doesn’t help

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  1. Editorial Team

    Never managed to get it to work. Perhaps due to being an Access Project (ADP) rather than database (MDB). Had to resort to creating forms (with nested subforms) instead of datasheets to get what I wanted.

    Also, nested forms (two levels down) don’t seem to work in Access 2007, but do in 2003, so had to go back to that.

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