You need to have a suitable ‘OLE Server’ application installed and correctly registered for the particular
file-type. This must be the case both at the time you insert the image, and when you subsequently come
to display it (e.g. if on a different system).
Depending on the file-type, one of the most common OLE Server applications is ‘MS Photo Editor’. To install
this app you’ll need to get your Office CD’s out and add it. Note that Photo Editor is not included with
Office 2003, and if you upgrade to 2003 Photo Editor will actually be removed (which breaks applications
that rely on it).
Note that OLE Embedding is responsible for a range of common problems, including configuration issues like
this, but more often a potentially HUGE size (and corresponding performance) overhead – for JPEG this can
be up to 200 *times* the original file-size, so unless you have very few images you can very quickly find
yourself heading towards the Access file-size limit.