Microsoft KB Archive/213788

= XL2000: Unable to Get OLE Object's Property Referencing Collection =

Article ID: 213788

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q213788





SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to get a property of an ActiveX control using the OLEObjects method, the following error message may appear:

Run-time error '1004':

Unable to get the  property of the   class.

For example, running a macro containing this statement x = Sheet1.OLEObjects.Border.ColorIndex should return the ColorIndex property of the Border class, but the following error message appears:

Run-time error '1004':

Unable to get the ColorIndex property of the Border class.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, refer to the index number of the ActiveX control. Instead of referring to the OLEObjects collection, refer to a single OLE object. For the example above, use the following statement to return the ColorIndex property of the Border class: x = Sheet1.OLEObjects(1).Border.ColorIndex



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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