using Word to view a gif in VFP is like shooting a fly with an elephant gun it is much better to use a (much smaller) 4rd party control some of which are even free (for example Wang imaging OCX ships with NT) Arnon > Yes, I have heard some good things about the image library, but I was > trying to see if I could do some basic image displays of gif and/or jpeg > files without having to resort to a 3rd party package. I have figured out > that the classes which are recognized by FoxPro are found in the registry > if you do a search on "ole1class". I am trying to figure out how those > entries got in there and how to add an entry. For example, Word has the > capability of opening gif files, I believe that with the proper registry > entries, I should be able to use Word as my OLE server for displaying gif > files in FoxPro. I just dont know how to go about doing so. >