Overflow means the number is too large for the data type.
As an example, open the Immediate Window (Ctrl+G), and enter:
? 200 * 200
It overflows, because the default data type in VBA is Integer (16-bit),
which runs out at 32767. 40000 is too big, so we must convert one of the
numbers to a Long Integer (32-bit) so it does not overflow:
? CLng(200) * 200
Use CDbl() to convert to a double, CCur() to convert to Currency, CVDate()
to convert to date.

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> Running a particular Access report or the query associated with it
> brings up the warning "Overflow". What does this mean? WhatI have I
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> HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> PLEASE
Spook - 03 Aug 2005 16:45 GMT