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XL97: Cannot Get OLEObjects Property Referencing Collection

Article ID: 157280

Article Last Modified on 10/10/2006

Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q157280

SYMPTOMS

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

Run-time error '1004':
Unable to get the <property name> property of the <class name> 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 OLEObject. 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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