Computer Programming Concepts and Visual Basic David I. Schneider

FIGURE 13-2 Dialog Box for Inserting Contents of a File into an OLE Container Control.
■ AN EMBEDDING WALKTHROUGH USING EXCEL
1. Press Alt/File/New Project and click on OK.
2. Click the OLE icon in the Toolbox and use the single-click-draw technique to
create a very large rectangle on the form.
3. The Insert Object dialog box appears. Double-click on “Microsoft Excel Worksheet”
in the Object Type list.
Excel will be invoked and you will be able to create a spreadsheet. (Most likely,
the Excel menu bar will replace the Visual Basic menu bar. In some cases,
the Excel menu bar will appear on the form just below the title bar.)
4. Enter data into cells as shown in the first three rows of the spreadsheet in Figure
13-3
5. Drag to select cells A1 through F3.
6. If you are using Excel 97, click Insert, click Chart, and then proceed to Step 8.
If you are using Excel 95, click Insert, then Chart, and then On This Sheet.
7. (A new mouse pointer consisting of a thin plus sign and a small bar chart
appears.) Move the mouse pointer to cell A5, drag to the bottom-right corner of
the OLE Container control, and then release the left mouse button.
A Chart Wizard dialog box appears.
8. Click on the Finish button.
Your spreadsheet should be similar to the one in Figure 13-3.
FIGURE 13-3 An Excel Spreadsheet
OLE 389