IF you're talking about ACCESS it opens with a "Security Warning" with an option to "Enable Content".
IF you do NOT enable the content strange things happen to the database.
You need to enable the content as soon as the database opens.
See if that is what is causing your error.
Hi <div>I have Mac Office 2008
</div><div>For all my apps I keep having an error message the states
"There is a problem with the office database." </div><div> </div><div>The error message states to go to the database utility,
which I did </div>

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