Inserting Pictures

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I'm taking a computer class, and I'm ajuat starting to learn about accress. Our assignment is to create a new database and form. I am having trouble with the form. I want to insert a different picture on each form. I included a OLE field in my table and left a space in the design form. I go to insert the first picture on the first form and it copies to all the other forms. I just want to know how to be able to put a different picture on each form. If anyone knows, I could use the help. Thanks.
 
Do not insert OLE Object. Just insert an Image.
How to do that:
Open the form in Design view. Click the Image control, and drag an rectangle
on the form. A dialog box will open (something like Windows Explorer).
Navigate to your picture file, and click Open. The Picture will be inserted
in the Form.
Click the Picture. Now press F4 to open the Properties page for it. Click
the Format tab. Here you will see the following:
Picture - showing the full Path and Name of the Picture you have just
inserted.
Picture type - Embedded - that is the way the picture is stored on your
form. Embedded pictures are in your file as copy and will take extra disk
space when you save your Access database. But if you move it to another
computer, you will not need to save move your picture file too, since the
picture is IN the database.
The other option is Linked - the Picture is not saved in the Database, it is
just linked. But when you move or delete the Picture file, you will not be
able to display it. Better keep Embedded for that Property.
Change the Size Mode and Picture Alignment as you want.

Take a look at the Online help - Press F1, and type Add a picture or object
in the Answer Wizard pane or if the Office Assistant is displayed - in its
baloon.
 
You can insert a Picture in a Image control, or in the Form itself.
Yes, of course you can insert pictures in each form.
Open the Form. click the upper-left cotner above the Detail Section, and the
Properties Page will show Form. Then click ... next to the Picture row, and
navigate to your picture.
 
Fellow MVP Larry Linville has posted the following in the past:

"The sample databases at http://accdevel.tripod.com illustrate three
approaches to handling images in Access. One uses External Files, but that
is not always the best approach; the other two store the information in the
database (one causes database bloat, the other does not). There's an article
discussing considerations in choosing which approach is best to use in your
specific case."



--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(No private e-mails, please)



Mary said:
Thanks for posting an answer, but it really is not what I am looking for.
Click to expand...
I want to know if there is a way to insert a different picture on each form.
Thanks.
 
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