We are using a networked database to link to various project documents
including jpg files. When I click a hyperlink to a jpg file My system
launches Internet explorer to display the file. Another system in the office
launches Office Picture Manager, which can't find the file. How can I control
which application will laungh?

This is a setting in windows and so you will have to do the following on each
of the computers in you network.

Load the control panel, select Folder Options, then click on the File Types
tab at the top. This will give you a list of all the files types windows has
encountered and what is set to open them. Scoll down until you find jpg,
select it, then click the change button and select the app you want jpg to
open in. (Note: there maybe more than one jpeg exstension eg. jpg, jpeg, jpe.
Also this is the procedure for windows XP, if you are running somthing else
it might be slightly different.)

HTH

Rico

"Ed Haddock" wrote:

> We are using a networked database to link to various project documents
> including jpg files. When I click a hyperlink to a jpg file My system
> launches Internet explorer to display the file. Another system in the office
> launches Office Picture Manager, which can't find the file. How can I control
> which application will laungh?

I guess the problem is do you care which application will load the file?

You an launch the jpg, or xls..or whatever by going:

application.FollowHyperlink "c:\mypicutres\Myhouse.jpg"

So, perhaps you should not really care what application the user has
selected to view the picture. Why not users install their favorite picture
or paint viewer. All you should do is simply launch the file as if you
double clicked on it (the above will do that).


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