Thanks, George.

You saved the day.

Dick

>>I have a table whose general fields hold embedded pictures ( in .bmp form ). I want to get the pictures OUT of the general field and into individual bitmap files ( one uniquely named bitmap file for each picture ).
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>>Any ideas would be most appreciated.
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>>TIA
>Dick,
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>Look at MSKB#Q161832 ("HOWTO: Export an Embedded .bmp Image into a File") seems to be exactly what you're looking for.