-----Original Message-----
Are you talking about the progress meter on the application's status
bar, or the "loading image" dialog that appears when, for example, you
assign an image-file path to an image control? If it's the latter
you're talking about, you can (a) set a registry entry to permanently
suppress this dialog, on a filetype-by-filetype basis, or (b) use the
form's Timer event to watch for the dialog to appear and hide it the
moment it does. Both methods are described in more detail here:
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0038.htm
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Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com
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