WD97: Excel 97 Chart Object Becomes Picture Converting to Word 7.0
Article ID: 157638
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q157638
SYMPTOMS
In Word 7.0, when you open a Word 97 document that contains a Microsoft
Excel chart object, and you double-click the Excel chart object, the Word
Picture Editor is opened instead of Excel.
WORKAROUND
To open a Word 97 document containing an Excel chart object in Word 7.0,
and to be able to double-click the Excel chart object to open Excel,
install the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Import Converter. For additional
information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:
162214 WD: How to Obtain the Word 97-2000 Import Converter
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
Additional query words: 8.0 word97
Keywords: kbbug kbinterop kbnofix KB157638