Wanted to express my heart-felt gratitude to Jon P (His master stroke -
"This technique worked well enough that I might even have to start
using it"), Tom O (Countless Syntax help), Rob B (XY chart labeller)
and the people who TAUGHT me PPT -- Steve R (Very funny and helpful
posts), Brian R (his thought provoking managing PPT project), David
M(Syntax), Shyam P(his syntax and rename add-in) and scores of others
for the help they provided regarding automation of Excel OLE objects
from PPT.

My mega project went off quite smoothly and am happy that I got to
learn and apply a lot from the folks in Excel and PPT groups.

Congratulations, Hari.

For my part, I always knew the day would get off to an interesting start when I
saw a post from you. ;-)

Always a challenge, but always a learning experience.