Suggest downloading the free IrfanView application.

Very nice program which, among many other features, allows mass conversions
from format to format.

BMP to JPEG for one.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Gord

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:21:02 -0800, "Luke Buttigieg"
<LukeButtigieg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>M scanner saves all the pictures it scans as Bitmap images. These files are
>very large, and hence it is rather impossible to send more than 5 bitmap
>images via email.
>
>Is there a power toy, or program, preferably Microsoft but I won't mind any
>third parties, that enable me to convert pictures from Bitmap to jpeg? It is
>rather tedious having to open the pictures in paint, save them as jpeg, and
>then deleting the other picture...
>
>Thank-you.