Criteria error

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In Access 2003 I was using the following criteria to quickly find a record.

Like "*" & UCase([Please enter first name]) & "*"

I only needed to put in a few letters, and access would find all records
that matched the criteria I was prompted to input in that field.

I have since upgraded to Access 2007 and now get the following error when
trying to use this criteria.

ODBC --call failed.

Why would it be looking for an ODBC connection . . . ?

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