I'm a primitivist. I recommend keeping your pictures in a directory. The path to the directory should be a system variable. In the report add a picture, set the control source type to "expression or variable name" and the control source to something like

m.pcCustomerPicturePath + Customers.pic_file

You can also skip the file name field altogether and use a key plus an extension.

m.pcArticlePicturePath + Articles.art_pk+"_thumb.gif"

Mind you, there is more than one way to skin a cat. I've avoided general fields because if the table becomes corrupted then you can have a real problem. I think they are better now though then when they first appeared in FoxPro.

Possible Problems: in some operating systems large numbers of files can be a problem.

>Need some help...
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>Would like to know a simple way to add pictures to records in a database that can be printed on a report?
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>Thank you for any help you can give me, Mark