Cannot find a solution to a problem, having looked in all my at-hand resources. So, here I am. When I set the "application icon" to the path on my hard drive where the icon is located, no problem. I have clicked the box "Use as Form and Report icon" and it works fine. When I remove the path except for the icon filename in anticipation of distributing the database, I receive the error message: Microsoft Access is unable to set the application's icon to the file .... Make sure the file is a valid icon (.ico) file. If you're using Microsoft Windows, you can also use .bmp files. It seems to me the issue is being sure the .ico file is in (embedded?) in the .accdb file. I haven't been able to accomplish that. I created a separate table with an attachments column and attached the .ico file. That doesn't solve the problem. When I open the database in runtime version, problem still exists. I'm stumped on how to make an image file part of the .accdb file in order to resolve this issue.