XL97: ActiveX Image Control on a Worksheet Cannot Be Edited
Article ID: 162601
Article Last Modified on 10/22/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q162601
SYMPTOMS
You cannot edit an ActiveX Image control on a worksheet. The context menu
for Image Object is "(Empty)" and cannot be selected.
CAUSE
You cannot select and edit an ActiveX Image control from a worksheet.
MORE INFORMATION
In Microsoft Excel 97, you can add an ActiveX control to a worksheet. The
ActiveX controls that you can add to a worksheet are on the Control Toolbox
toolbar. To display the Control Toolbox toolbar, point to Toolbars on the
View menu, and then click Control Toolbox.
The ActiveX Image control displays a graphical image from a bitmap, icon,
or metafile on a form. An image that is displayed in an Image control is
only decorative. You cannot edit this image from the worksheet.
You can edit many of the ActiveX controls on the worksheet. For example,
you can edit the TextBox control on the worksheet. You can edit the text in
the TextBox control from the worksheet by right-clicking the TextBox
control, pointing to TextBox Object and clicking Edit.
REFERENCES
For more information about ActiveX controls, click the Index tab in
Microsoft Excel Visual Basic Editor Help, type the following text
and then double-click the selected text to go to the "Toolbox"
topic.
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