Microsoft® Office Access™ 2007 Plain & Simple

Adding a Picture

The Chinese philosopher Confucius said that a picture is worth ten thousand words. His wisdom still holds true—a photograph of a product or a diagram of a process can provide valuable contextual information to help you and your colleagues understand form and report data. Also, whether you work for yourself or for a large organization, it’s important to add your logo to any documents you want to distribute outside your organization.

Another important consideration when adding a picture to an Access object is whether to embed the picture in the file, which increases the database file’s size every time you use the picture, or to link to a single copy of the picture that travels everywhere with the database. If you use the image frequently, ...