DOCUMENT:Q191615  24-AUG-1998  [vbwin]
TITLE   :BUG: Menu Disabled in Application Activated Using OLE Control
PRODUCT :Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
PROD/VER:
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions
   for Windows, versions 5.0, 6.0
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SYMPTOMS
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On a form in Visual Basic, you use the OLE control to embed a document,
such as a Microsoft Word document. If the server application is already
running when you in-place activate the OLE control, the menu and toolbars
in the server application are disabled while the OLE control is in-place
activated. This problem does not occur if the server application is started
after the OLE control is in-place activated.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION
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This problem occurs when using the following objects in the OLE control:

Microsoft Excel Worksheet
Microsoft Word Document

To avoid problems using the menu and toolbars in the server application,
activate the OLE control in its own window. To do this, set the MiscFlags
property of the OLE control to 2 (VbOLEMiscFlagDisableInPlace), or use the
vbOLEOpen constant with the DoVerb method when programmatically activating
the OLE control.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior
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1. Start Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word.

2. Start Visual Basic and create a new Standard EXE project. Form1 is
   created by default.

3. Add an OLE control to Form1. The Insert Object dialog appears.

4. Select "Microsoft Excel Worksheet" if you started Microsoft Excel in
   step 1, or "Microsoft Word Document" if you started Microsoft Word in
   step 1. Click OK to insert a new object into the OLE control.

5. Press the CTRL+F5 key combination to run the project.

6. Double-click the OLE control on Form1. Note that the object is in-place
   activated and a menu appears in Form1. The menu functions properly in
   the OLE control.

7. Switch back to the application you started in step 1 and try to use its
   menu and toolbars. The menu and toolbars in the server application are
   disabled.

   If you start the server application after in-place activating the OLE
   control, the menu and toolbars function properly.

Additional query words: kbDSupport kbDSD inplace kbVBp kbVBp600bug
kbVBp500bug kbActiveX kbContainer
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Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

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