Sage Error 40036: Application Defined or Object Defined Error

Sage 50 is incorporated with a number of powerful features to help businesses streamline their accounting activities. Therefore, no prizes for guessing why Sage 50 is highly sought after by businesses and professionals all over the world. It includes comprehensive reporting tools to help you evaluate your business performance. You can analyze these comprehensive reports to explore possible opportunities to increase revenue, reduce cost and expand the ‘reach’ of your business.

However, many users of Sage 50 have informed that they have faced issues while trying to open a report in Sage Intelligence. One of the common issues they often face in this regard is the Sage Error 40036: Application-defined or Object Defined error.

If you are also facing this issue, you have landed in the right place. In this blog, we will look at some easy remedies to fix this issue. Simply go through this blog, perform the steps mentioned sequentially and keep your system free from this error!

Here we go!

What are the Possible Reasons for the Occurrence of Sage Error 40036?

Many technical issues may contribute to the occurrence of this Error. Some of these are mentioned below-

• Incomplete or corrupt download or installation of the Microsoft Access software.
• The windows registry is corrupt
• One or more Windows system files /Microsoft access related program files getting corrupt due to infection by malware or virus.
• You may have deleted some Microsoft access related files by mistake.

What is the Procedure to Fix Sage Error 40036?

Here are a couple of methods to fix the Sage Error 40036: Application-defined or Object Defined error –

Option 1– Clean junk files and folders with disk cleanup

To Delete Temporary Files:

• Click on the taskbar
• Type disk cleanup in the search box, 
• From the list of results, select Disk Cleanup.
• Choose the drive you want to clean up
• Click OK.
• Go to Files to delete
• Specify the file types you want to delete. To view the description of a file type, click on it.
• Select OK to proceed

To Delete System Files:

• Click on the taskbar
• Type disk cleanup in the search box
• From the list of results, select Disk Cleanup 
• In Disk Cleanup, choose Clean up system files.
• Specify the file types you want to delete. To view the description of a file type, click on it.
• Select OK to proceed

Option 2-use the system restore option

• Go to the start menu
• Type ‘system restore’ in the text box. 
• Press enter.
• Choose System Restore 
• Provide your admin user name and password.
• Specify a restore point 
• Follow the instructions as displayed by the Wizard.
• After the task is complete, restore the computer

Option 3-

• Go to features and Programs
• From the menu on the right, select Control Panel
• From the features and Programs section, locate Access Error 40036 associated programs.
• Choose the particular Microsoft Access associated entry 
• Select to start the installation.
• Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

One thing we should understand is that no software is completely free of errors and Sage 50 is no exception either. We also acknowledge how annoying it can be if you encounter such errors while doing something important. That’s why, in the above discussion, we tried to provide some easy solutions to the Sage Error 40036: Application-defined or Object Defined error. We hope the troubleshooting methods mentioned above would help you fix this common issue. If you looking for Sage 50 support just dial our tollfree number 1800 964 3096