Welcome to another free tutorial brought to you by Access Learning Zone. In this tutorial, I'm going to teach you how to display images on your Access forms and reports without actually storing those images in your database. When you store picture files inside database fields, your database can become very big and slow, especially across a network. So, in this lesson, I'll teach you how to store just the file name of an image in your database and have Access automatically display that picture using an image control. To start, we'll design a simple table with fields for employee ID, first name, last name, and an employee picture field, which will be a standard text field. You can put in some first names and last names in the table, and for the employee picture field, we'll add the file name and path to each employee's picture. For example, you can create a folder on your desktop and put some random pictures in it. The complete path to the folder would be "C:\users\Richard\desktop\pictures". Assign the file name with the complete path to each employee's picture in the table. Once you have added the file names, you can create a form based on that table. Switch to design view and go to the design tab. Open the tool and find the image control. Click on it and then click inside the detail section of the form. This will prompt the insert picture dialog, but you can cancel it. Now you have an empty image container. Resize or move it as needed. Double click on the image control to open its properties. In the property sheet, make sure the name is set as "image25". Go to the data tab and in the control source property, choose the employee picture field as the control source...