>>I have a table with 3 types of documents, I would like to represent each document type with a bitmap or icon in the first column of the grid, without store the images in a general field in each record of the table nor to be linked with another table to avoid a performance penalty.
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>Maybe you can use a calculated field that will decide which of those 3 bitmaps to show to represent the type of document that record represents.


I will try it.

Thank You Michel,