>anyone know what possible causes there are for this error the message says that a procedure was canceled by an associatied object i have searched high and low and cant find anything in the help files on this

See Article ID Q189851 on the Microsoft support online site (which an extract is pasted here).

PRB This Action was Cancelled by an Associated Object.(3426)"

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, versions 5.0, 6.0
Microsoft Visual Basic Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

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SYMPTOMS
This article discusses the error message "This action was cancelled by an associated object." that Visual Basic generates when working with Access databases and the Data control. This article does not apply to the ADO data control.



CAUSE
This error is being generated because the AddNew command of a bound recordset causes Visual Basic to try to save the current record if the data has changed. Because the data control is currently pointing to a NULL record and not an empty record, the data cannot be saved so the "action was cancelled by an associated object" error is reported. This is commonly seen when using the data form wizard in Visual Basic versions 4.0 and 5.0. The data form wizard in Visual Basic 6.0 generates code for the ADO data control so this error is less likely to occur.



RESOLUTION
Check the underlying recordset to see if either the BOF or EOF properties are True before allowing an implicit save to occur. An implicit save occurs either when using the data control to navigate off of a record where the information has changed or adding a record to a bound recordset.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.