PPT2000: Group Object Containing Excel Object Changes Size When OleFormat.DoVerb Opens Excel Object

In a PowerPoint 2000 presentation, if you create an object group that contains a Microsoft Excel chart object and another object, and you run a macro that uses the DoVerb method to open the Excel chart object, the size of the group object in PowerPoint changes.

To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).

To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 and Excel 2000. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.

Important Notes

1. If you click Create from file when inserting an object, and select an Excel workbook in which a chart sheet is the active sheet, the Excel object is not resized when you invoke Open mode (right-click the object and then click Open <Worksheeet/Chart> Object).
2. If you click Create from file when inserting an object, and select an Excel workbook in which a worksheet is the active sheet, the chart sheet is rendered at the size of the PowerPoint slide if you switch between the worksheet and a chart sheet while in Open mode. This also occurs when you copy and paste to embed an object.
3. If you click Create from file when inserting an object, select an Excel workbook in which a worksheet is the active sheet, and its cell range exceeds the maximum size limits for a Windows metafile, the metafile does not show the entire worksheet. This is a WMF limit that you cannot change.