I have tried jpg and bmp but to no avail. Can I upload to you my small database and 2 or 3 photos in bmp format so you can see what is the problem?

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Reply from Richard Rost:

Access itself doesn't handle displaying images. It uses whatever your default Windows image handling program is to display them. If images aren't displaying properly in Access, chances are you have some other 3rd-party program set up as your default image handler that doesn't get along with Access. The easiest fix is to make sure that you have Microsoft Paint set up as the default handler for BMP, GIF, and JPG images. This is a Windows setting. You want to make Paint the application that opens images by default. You can do this by right-clicking on any BMP, GIF, or JPG file, selecting OPEN WITH, and then selecting Paint. Make sure to set this as the DEFAULT app (open with this app every time). The steps are roughly the same, but slightly different with each version of Windows. You may have some other application installed that's trying to "handle" your image files which is causing problems in Access.


If you want us to look at your database for you, feel free to submit it to the TECHHELP team. However, be warned that 90% of the time it's a separate problem on your PC, not your database.