I used Crystal Designer in VB and added code to load text into an unbound field and load pictures to an ole object. If my Crystal report (v9.0) detail section contained only unbound fields and ole objects the report worked. When I added database fields in the same detail section I got an error ( 70 Permission denied). To work around the problem I created a 2nd detail section. All of the database fields are in detail section 1 and all unbound fields are in detail section 2. That seem to work.