Unable to Activate Source Program for Embedded Object (78799)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0
- Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0a
- Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0b
- Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0c
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0a
- Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0c
- Microsoft Word for Windows 95
- Microsoft Word for Windows 95 7.0a
- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
- Microsoft Excel for Windows 5.0
- Microsoft Excel for Windows 95
- Microsoft Excel for Windows 95 7.0a
- Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q78799 SUMMARY
In Microsoft Word for Windows, if you close a document before you save
it and that document is paste linked to a Microsoft Excel for Windows
worksheet, when you return to Microsoft Excel and attempt to update the
paste-linked information, you receive one of the following error
messages:
Unable to activate source application for embedded object.
Cannot start the source application for this object.
Word cannot edit the Microsoft Excel Worksheet
MORE INFORMATION
When you use Word for Windows version 2.0 as an OLE server, Word
creates a bookmark for the link. If you don't save your changes, the
bookmark no longer exists; therefore, Microsoft Excel (or any other
client application with such a link) fails and displays the above error
message. If you close the server document without saving, Word does not
warn you that a link with another document exists.
If you save changes when you close the Word server document, no problem
or error message occurs in the client application. The error message
occurs only if a client application attempts to update or activate a
linked object from a Word document that was closed but not saved.
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information
here as it becomes available.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 8/16/2005 |
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| Keywords: | KB78799 |
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