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Changing Ole object representation to Picture

How To


Summary

Perhaps you have a company logo and copyright notice /legend used on your charts and the logo is an OLE object?

By using OLE objects, this means you must maintain a suitable OLE server , possibly across multiple operating systems and this can be problematic. If you change the representation away from an OLE object to a picture file then you can remove the reliance/need for a suitable OLE server

Objective

 We are looking at 'changing the representation', of the chart object from an OLE object to a picture but we are keeping the image file the same.

 

Steps

Select the chart object and select F11, list items, you can see the representation is OLE object, as expected.

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Exit F11, list items and with the chart item still selected:-

Step 1: go to the 'style' tab, 'change representation' and select 'icon'
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OK the selection.
 
Step 2. keeping the charted item selected, right mouse click and select  'edit Item Properties'
 
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Step 3.  'set style' to 'Picture' and then browse to the appropriate image file and OK the selection
 
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Step 4: You may need to adjust the enlargement, either choosing the incremental enlargements or custom/slider
 
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Once you are satisfied with the size and have Ok'd, saved the changes, if you now go back into F11 , list items, you can now see the representation details:-
 
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So if you are using the image as a logo, part of a legend  in your standard template, then you can be satisfied of the changes and make these same changes in your template and  adopt the use of a picture rather than an OLE representation, but using the same image file.
 
 

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Document Information

Modified date:
28 November 2018

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