Paul,

Both of these work for me

AAA = ActiveCell.Value
ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert Filename:="C:\Photos\" & AAA

AAA = ActiveCell.Value
ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert "C:\Photos\" & AAA

Are you sure you are including the .jpg in the cell value?

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HTH

Bob Phillips

"Paul" wrote in message
...
If I record a macro, it looks like this:

ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert("C:\Photos\3078.JPG"). Select

Obviously, I want to make the "3078.JPG" a variable that
I create by selecting a cell from a list of many JPGs. I
tried:

AAA=Activecell.Value
ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert("C:\Photos\" & AAA

I also tried ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert
Filename="C:\Photos\" & AAA

Neither worked. I must be getting the syntax wrong.

TIA
paul