I didn't have problems until I installed DWG trueview 2010. Then these Ole objects, started being named as DWG TrueView Drawings (instead of Autocad Drawing as before), and can’t be edited double clicking them. If you try to do this, a message box with the text 'Cannot start the source application for this object' pops up. 'Cannot start the source application for this object' Message Having trouble locating a solution that will troubleshoot the 'Cannot start the source application for this object' within Excel. I have embedded an Excel file and Word doc within the Excel file and I'm no longer able to open the files.
Represents the entire Microsoft Excel application.
Use the Application property to return the Application object. The following example applies the Windows property to the Application object.
The following example creates an Excel workbook object in another application and then opens a workbook in Excel.
Many of the properties and methods that return the most common user-interface objects, such as the active cell (ActiveCell property), can be used without the Application object qualifier. For example, instead of writing:
You can write:
The Application object contains:
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