Images in an Access field

[Ricardo]

I see that I can set a field to an OLE data type. However, I cannot seem to
get the image working. I want to set up some databases for 1st year
secondary school pupils and have images for each of the records (eg dolphins,
dinosaurs, etc.) but cannot get them to work.

Does anyone have a nice clear technique for doing so?

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Ricardo

Storing images in an Access database can lead to serious "bloat" ... in
earlier versions of Access. The preferred method of incorporating images
with an Access database is to store the images in a file folder and use a
field in an Access table to "point to" the file. You can then load the
image from that.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

 

[Ricardo]

Jeff, thanks for that - I think I know how to do that and will give it a try.