Why .gif pictures won't work with Access 2002

[PowerfulStar]

I have an Access database created in version 97 that has a picture (.gif) embedded in a form. After converted to Access 2002, the form does not display the picture; however, if I open the picture, with e.g. Internet Explorer, and save it as a .bmp and embed it in the form, it gets displayed OK.

Is it me or Access 2002?

Thanks in advance for any information and regards,


PowerfulStar (Access newbie)

 

[FancyPrairie]

Don't know if this will help since I've only used Access 1.0, 2.0, 7.0(95), and 9.0(2000). I've not used 97 or 2002.

However, in Access 2000 the only way I could get gifs to work was to download the file gif89.dll (from the internet) and register it via regsvr32.