Microsoft KB Archive/78799

= Unable to Activate Source Program for Embedded Object =

Article ID: 78799

Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2.0a
 * Microsoft Office Word 2003
 * Microsoft Word 2.0c
 * Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 6.0a
 * Microsoft Word 6.0c
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95a
 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 95a
 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q78799



SUMMARY
In Microsoft Word for Windows, if you close a document before you save it and that document is paste linked to a Microsoft Excel for Windows worksheet, when you return to Microsoft Excel and attempt to update the paste-linked information, you receive one of the following error messages:

Unable to activate source application for embedded object.

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Cannot start the source application for this object.

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Word cannot edit the Microsoft Excel Worksheet



MORE INFORMATION
When you use Word for Windows version 2.0 as an OLE server, Word creates a bookmark for the link. If you don't save your changes, the bookmark no longer exists; therefore, Microsoft Excel (or any other client application with such a link) fails and displays the above error message. If you close the server document without saving, Word does not warn you that a link with another document exists.

If you save changes when you close the Word server document, no problem or error message occurs in the client application. The error message occurs only if a client application attempts to update or activate a linked object from a Word document that was closed but not saved.

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available.

Additional query words: dde 2.0 2.0a 2.0b 2.0a-CD 7.0 word95 word7 word6 word8 word97 winword winword2 6.0 6.0a 6.0c xl97

Keywords: KB78799

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