XL2000: Unable to Get OLE Object's Property Referencing Collection (213788)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Excel 2000

This article was previously published under Q213788

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to get a property of an ActiveX control using the OLEObjects method, the following error message may appear:
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 OLE object. 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.

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:10/11/2006
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