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Place images into the form backgrounds

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Place images into the form backgrounds

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- The selective use of images throughout your database can accomplish several tasks. They can help your documents conform to company branding standards or reinforce organizational pride. They can also make your databases more attractive and give it a bit of personality. Maybe even make it fun or inspirational for your end users. There are four different ways to add unbound images to your forms and reports. And when I say unbound, I mean that they're not connected to a data source like our employee photos were. Let's take a look at the options that we have by right-clicking on the controls form and opening it into design view. The first one I want to look at can be found on the design tab of the ribbon, and it says insert image. When I click on this downward-pointing arrow, we'll see that we get a gallery here and, if I had any images that I'd previously used, we'd see those appear here. Otherwise, we just get a browse button, then a browser to our system, where we can choose an image…

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