Microsoft KB Archive/68474

Embedded Document Window Numbering in Excel 3.0 PSS ID Number: Q68474 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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WINDOWS

Summary:

The name of the document window that contains the chart or worksheet that is going to be embedded from Microsoft Excel 3.00 into PowerPoint reflects the number of times that an embedding application has been called during the current PowerPoint session. The format of the name appearing in the open document window is PowerPoint, where is a lowercase hexidecimal number that represents the number of times an embedding application has been called.

For example, if you have already invoked PowerPoint Graph 13 times and then you choose Insert from the File menu and select Excel Chart to bring in a chart from Excel 3.00, the title bar of the empty chart window in Excel will contain the name “ePowerPoint.” The lowercase letter that appears just before the word PowerPoint is the hexidecimal digit for the decimal value 14.

More Information:

Embedding applications can be invoked three different ways from within PowerPoint for Windows:


 * 1) Choose the Insert command from the File menu. The can be one of any number of valid embedded object types as listed in the [Embedding] section of the WIN.INI. With Microsoft Excel installed on your system, there should be at least three choices: ExcelChart, ExcelWorksheet, and Graph.

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 Double-Click an object that has already been embedded into the presentation.

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 With an embedded object selected, choose the Edit command. The term in the Edit menu will reflect what type of embedded object is currently selected.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.