Microsoft KB Archive/68465

Renaming the Excel 3.00 Executable File May Disable Embedding PSS ID Number: Q68465 Article last modified on 02-26-1993 PSS database name: W_eXceL

3.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

If you want to embed charts and worksheets from Microsoft Excel version 3.00 into other applications, you should not rename the Excel executable file EXCEL.EXE. If you change the name of the file, it will not match the entries in the [Embedding] section of the WIN.INI file. The entries in the [Embedding] section tell applications which executable files to start in order to embed different types of objects.

In the case of Excel, the entries that it places in the section explicitly specify EXCEL.EXE as the necessary executable file to embed charts or worksheets into other applications. If you change the entries to indicate the renamed executable file, Excel will see that it no longer matches the lines that it originally put in the WIN.INI.

To illustrate this, let’s say you install Excel 3.00 in the XL30 directory and the executable file is renamed as XL30.EXE. The following error message is generated:

Sorry unable to insert a picture from ‘C:30.EXE’. This application should not be listed in the [Embedding] section of the WIN.INI.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.