You may use the oleboundcontrol having general field as controlsource. Then control.oleclass will give you information you need.

>I have just been given a *huge* table that contains a General field that contains an assortment of graphic images; bmps, jpg, gifs, tiffs etc ... all in the one field.
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>Is there anyway programmatically I can figure out what the object type is??? I need to extract each one and create an actual file.
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>Cheers,
>-Mark