Article ID: 182679
Article Last Modified on 6/17/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q182679
SYMPTOMS
When you use Visual Basic for Applications to insert an OLE object, such as a Microsoft Excel Worksheet object, into the header or footer of a document, the object opens the application for editing instead of providing in-place editing within Word.
CAUSE
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Sub Main()
' Set up object variables.
Dim oDoc1 As Object
Dim oRange1 As Object
Dim oInlineShape As Object
Set oDoc1 = Documents.Add
Set oRange1 = oDoc1.Content
Set oRange2 = oDoc1.Sections(1).Headers(1).Range
' Insert the OLE object
Set oInlineShape1 = oDoc1.InlineShapes.AddOLEObject(Range:=oRange2, _
ClassType:="Excel.Sheet.8", LinkToFile:=False, DisplayAsIcon:=False)
End Sub
WORKAROUND
To provide in-place editing, the OLE object needs to know where it will be inserted on the screen. When this position is unknown, the OLE server, in this case, Microsoft Excel, operates in Open Mode.
To ensure that the OLE server is activated "in-place," view the header before you insert the object. The following example Visual Basic for Applications macro includes the commands for viewing the header prior to inserting the OLE object:
Sub Main()
' Set up object variables.
Dim oDoc1 As Object
Dim oRange1 As Object
Dim oInlineShape As Object
Set oDoc1 = Documents.Add
Set oRange1 = oDoc1.Content
Set oRange2 = oDoc1.Sections(1).Headers(1).Range
' Must be in page layout to view header.
If ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial <> wdPaneNone Then
ActiveWindow.Panes(2).Close
End If
If ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = _
wdNormalView Or ActiveWindow. _
ActivePane.View.Type = wdOutlineView Or _
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdMasterView Then
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdPageView
End If
' View the header.
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
' Insert the OLE object
Set oInlineShape1 = _
oDoc1.InlineShapes.AddOLEObject(Range:=oRange2, _
ClassType:="Excel.Sheet.8", LinkToFile:=False, DisplayAsIcon:=False)
End Sub
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
181058 OFF98: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles
REFERENCES
For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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