I am currently working on a project using Microsoft Access 2003 to print
"name tag" type labels for a holiday dinner dance. I wanted to use clip art
images (jpeg or bmp?) to reflect a variety of dinner entrees for each row in
the Access database table, i.e., each guest. Each guest will have his or her
dinner entree selection printed on his name tag in the form of a clip art
image to visually show the banquet wait staff which of 3 possible entrees to
serve to each person sitting at any given table in the ballroom.

We have tried the technique of storing the selected clip art images
previously downloaded from the Internet in a folder within the Shared
Documents of our hard disk. We then used an Access Update Query to
conditionally preload the variable file name of the respective stored clip
art image (hyperlink?) into a database field name for each row in our Access
database.

We used the design grid for the "name tag label" report to reference the
database field name earlier preloaded with what we thought was the path or
link to the Update Query preloaded clip art hard disk location. When we ran
the report the hyperlink/file name appears but we did not see the expected
clip art image.

When we double click on the respective clip art file name stored in the
Shared Documents folder on our hard disk we do get immediate retrieval of the
clip art image on the computer screen.

Do these symptoms indicate that (1) we do not have the Access database field
name preloaded with the proper information to accomodate linking/pathing to
the hard disk stored clip art image location or (2) are we using an improper
file type for Microsoft Access 2003 to display clip art hyperlinks properly?
The report control object for the database field name to display the clip art
image refects "Unbounded" which may also be the potential source of our
problem?

Thanks in advance for any input to solve this this frustrating problem.