>>For now I want to leave it alone and have the user only use BMP images. If the image is in a General field how do I display it in a report. That is what control do I use in the report? An example would be appreciated.
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>This way you can use OLEBoundControl and fix Controlsource property on General field hosting Bmp file.

Thanks, I found it. I assume if I put NOT EMPTY(table.picture) in the expression "Print on when true" for the "Print When" tab it print the picture only when there is some thing in the general field "picture" and that this speeds up the report. Is this true?