Background Image on Tabbed Form

[Keeper]

I'm having trouble using pictures on my form (Access 2007). I have a form with a Tab Control on it. Essentially, it is a three page form. I have a .gif file which I would like to use as a baground image on each tab within the form. The only way I've been able to insert the picture is to insert it as a logo. I would have thought using it as an unbound object would be the proper method, but the image won't show up that way, only a picture icon. When in insert the logo, it appears to not to sit within the tab, but rather ontop of, or behind it. So it either blocks all the other fields I have in my form, is completely blocked by the tab control.

How do I set my image as a background image which appears exactly the same on each of the tabs within the tab control of my form?

The second issue I'm having is inserting a bound image to the form and having it display properly. It's an employee photo saved as a .jpg. In the table itself, when I insert the photo, it shows up as "package". In the form, it shows the name of the file and a picture icon (not a thumbnail). I can double click and have it open the file, but I want to actually display the picture directly in the form. I've read that the file has to be converted, but it doesn't say to what. I've tried right clicking on it and choosing Package Shell Object Object > Convert, but in the box that pops up, there are no options for what to convert it to.

How do I insert a photo to a record and have it appear directly in my form?

[June7]

That last control created will show on top of all other controls. However, can modify this display order. Select control(s) - such as textboxes, not the tab control - right click Position>BringToFront/SendToBack.

The image is saved into an attachment field? Use the image control and set its ControlSource property to the field with the stored images.

[Keeper]

That last control created will show on top of all other controls. However, can modify this display order. Select control(s) - such as textboxes, not the tab control - right click Position>BringToFront/SendToBack.

This is precisely my problem. I can only move the image to the very front (on top of the tab control - thus obscurring all the controls within the tab control) or to the back (behind the tab control, thus totally obscurred by the tab control), relative to the form as a whole. I'm looking for a way to place the imagine within the tab control (as a background image) just as all the other fields exist in the tab control. Alternatively, can the image be moved to the front, then made somewhat transparent, so the tab control shows through it?

[June7]

No, I think you will have to copy the image control to each tab page and then send other controls on each tab page to the front of the image. Of what purpose is this background image? Unless you create the image with a 'faded' effect, it will overpower user's visual attention if the other controls are set to transparent so the watermark shows through. And if you opaque the other controls the image won't show anyway.

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