David,

It's good that pain emits better behaved gifs than Word.

It's pretty much too late for a bad gif to be handled better in 8 or before. But if it still crashes Europa maybe it can still be fixed. I'll feedback what I find out.

>As always you are very helpful. I opened in paint and resaved. Worked like a charm. BTW - to clarify/correct what I originally said: 1) When opening the bad gif in vfp6 - the gif shows as just a black image, in vfp7 - crashes.
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>Haven't tried vfp8 yet - this project is a vfp 6 app.
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>I'll email the files to you separately. Let me know what you find. Thanks again.