Form of upgraded app can't show png files (1 Viewer)

[Kowalski]

I've upgraded an old Access 97 app to Access 2010.
Now I want to replace an icon on a button with a new icon, but when I choose the new icon, which is a .png file, I get a message that:

Program doesn't support the format of the file ..path...\image.png or file is too large.

It's definitely not too large.
I don't want to use BMP format as I would like to keep the transparent background.

 

[GinaWhipp]

I had that problem... very irritating because that is not the case. The only work around I could figure out was...

Create a new database with one Form and put a Command Button on it with your image. Then open you live database and copy/paste the Command Button.

The best I could figure is it has something to do with an upgraded database as all the ones I created in 2010 did not give me any issues when using a .PNG image file.