> While they are in one of my forms viewing the images they may hit a button > that will bring up a save as prompt. When they decide upon a filename then > hit save as, I call the code that you have provided. Unfortunately I have > not had any success at opening the .fpt file. After the file is saved > 'filename.fpt' I rename it to 'filename.bmp' but am not able to open it > with paintbrush, etc. > > I hope that this is enough background information for you. Oh, my > programming experience is as follows: > 2 years MS Access Database - single user application. > 1 year MS Visual Basic > 2 months VFP. > > Here again is the code snippet that I am using. > > SELECT citations > SET ORDER TO citation_n > CitationNumber = INT(VAL(CitationNumber)) > SEEK CitationNumber > COPY FIELD citation_images_signature NEXT 1 TO &Filename The .fpt file has several header bytes which probably prevent any bitmap proces sing app to recognize the format of the file. Try savename_lc=putfile("*.bmp") Copy memo citation_images_signature to (savename_lc) The first line is probably having syntax error (putfile has more parameters, AF AIK), anyway savename_lc is the filename of the .bmp file to create. This will work if you s tore the bitmap to a memo field using Append memo citation_images_signature from (bmpfilename_lc) If you're not sure if the memo field is empty, you may add OverWrite clause. No w, since it's a general type or something like that, the memo field may contain some extra head er, so in that case I'm not sure.