I have looked through 18 pages of forums and have not found an example of what I want to do. The help I have received from this forum has been tremendous so far. I have a form with a subform that displays an image and everything works fine. The problem I have is that not all of the records on the main form have images related to them. Where there are no images for that record I want to display a message "there are no images related to this record" in the image field or somewhere like a pop-up message box or something like that. It is probably quite simple for you guys out there but I just can't get my head around it. Any help would be appreciated.