>How would I keep a reference to the the file and and still let the user see the contents?
The reference would be the filename - in a character or memo field.
To view the contents, you use the Image control.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
