>Chaps,
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>WE have a image viewer control for one of our applications, howver when trying to preview a .tiff file it falls over, it seems that the picture control in Visual basic doesn't support Tiff files, is there any way around this??

I use Kodak image viewer ActiveX together with MS Access and it works just fine on TIF files. Did you any chance misspell file name and extension. Don't forget to invoke display() method to display the image.