Should have specified, but should be obvious: I had my picture path stored in
the cell A1 of sheet "Sheet1" - but you can use any text string here so just
supply your file path to the picture file as the parameter for the
LoadPicture function.

"K Dales" wrote:

I like the idea of a popup userform with the picture on it, and it is not too
hard to do: First, create the userform and size it however you like. You
don't need to add any controls on it, because you can use the form's own
background to display the picture. Then, create the button and assign this
code to it:
With UserForm1
.Picture = LoadPicture(Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value)
.Show
.Picture = LoadPicture ' with no arguments, this clears the current picture
End With

You can set the userform to a fixed size (in which case I suggest you set
the picturesizemode to Zoom) or, if necessary, you could find out how big the
picture is and scale the form accordingly, but that gets messy so I won't
attempt that here! But hope it gives you a start, at least.

"Jean" wrote:

Hi,

I am relatively new at Excel VBA, but have used Access VBA in the past
and need a few tips to do the following seemingly simple task.

I have a spreadsheet, with a comand button cmdShowPic. When the user
clicks on cmdShowPic, it must show a picture that I specify.

My question is: how do I implement this? To start, do I simply copy and
paste the pic into the spreadsheet? And how do I caal a method that
will show the pic? I am not sure how to do this, maybe with a User
Form?

Thanks in advance for the help!

J