Philippe,
This is what I've done for years:
Put the relative path of the BMP in the Picture property like so:

="MyGraphic.bmp"
or
="bmps\MyGraphic.bmp"

- or whatever the path is relative to the project.

.. be sure to include the = and quotes.
Add the BMPS to the project in the Other tab.
It works great!

Mark

>Hello
>
>Sorry for so basic a question, but I'm interested in your opinion.
>
>I wanna set a picture onto a command button.
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>I use... its picture property!
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>But this property only admits the name of a .BMP file with its relative/absolute path. I'm unable to write only the file name, even with a PATH SETting to the location of this picture.
>
>Then I can i.e. create a sub directory of my default directory dedicated to graphics.
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>Yet, I'd rather use a built-in-the-EXE graphic file.
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>How can I include the .BMP into my .EXE and use it, and how can i avoid to create a 'graphics' subdirectory?
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>May I expect that the commandbutton will load the .BMP from the .EXE if it doesn't find any 'graphics' subdirectory? But I would be surprised of such a behaviour when The picture path is hard-coded.
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>An answer?
>
>Regards
>
>Philippe