Microsoft KB Archive/75213

= PRB: Embedded Objects Not Activated by Excel =

Article ID: 75213

Article Last Modified on 10/27/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft OLE 1.0

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This article was previously published under Q75213



SYMPTOMS
When an application attempts to activate an Excel embedded object using the procedures of the OLE libraries, Excel does not activate the object. Excel does allocate memory on behalf of the object.



CAUSE
Although the restrictions on OLE object names are the same as for MS-DOS filenames, Excel version 3.0 does not activate an object that has a backslash (\), forward slash (/), or colon as part of its name.



RESOLUTION
Avoid using the three characters, which were specified above, in the names of Excel objects.

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