From newbie: How to change data source?

To Crystal Reports design forum:
I'm just trying to get to know Crystal Reports. (Version 11.5.8.826) So I used one of the examples in their sample database (a pie chart), and saved a new version with a new name. Now, I'm trying to change the data source, so I can do a breakdown by race based on a query in one of our Microsoft Access databases.
However, when I click on "Database - Set Datasource Location", I get a popup widow saying: "Some tables could not be replaced, as no match was found in the new data source. Please specify the table required for any unmodified tables". And it won't let me use the Access database as my source of data.
I'm hoping there is a way around this problem! It would be nice to adapt a pre-existing report by choosing a new data source, and then making other modifications ... but it's not letting me do it. Thanks much! Regards, --Tom

Tom,
It won't work because the report is looking for data that doesn't exist in the "different" Access database.
Just because they are both Access databases doesn't mean that the query from one db will work on another, completely different, Access db. You've got to start with a new report and a new db with a new query.
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