Since my second posting has been posted for two weeks
without getting an anwser, I hope this re-posting could
get help from somebody. Thanks in advance.

The following is my second posting:

Yes, I tried this but it does not help. My codes look like:

excel_app = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
' or excel_app = new Excel.Application
excel_app.Visible = False ' Actually it defaults to False
workbook = excel_app.Workbooks.Open("myfile.xls")
worksheet = workbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
shape = worksheet.Shapes.Item(1)
......

It seems that the Excel automation server, when invoked
with "Verb" function call, will always try to set the
Excel app's visibility to True. I am not sure if we have
other ways to tell the server at the invoke time that we
do not want to display the window.

Thanks,
Yi

-----Original Message-----
Have you tried:

Application.Visible = False
....
shape.OLEFormat.Verb(Excel.XlOLEVerb.xlVerbOpen )
....
Application.Visible = True

--
Bob Kilmer


"Yi" wrote in message
...
I have a VB application that processes an Excel file.
The
Excel file has a Chart (actually a Workbook) Shape
object
embedded in it. The application needs to activate the
Shape object in order to update the data in the
worksheet.
When the following code is called, the Excel window will
always popup.
shape.OLEFormat.Verb(Excel.XlOLEVerb.xlVerbOpen)

Can anybody tell me how to hide the Excel window when
this
code is called? I can only find two types of verbs -
Open
and Primary, and they both display the window.

Or, is there any other way to activate the OLE object
without displaying the Excel window?

Thanks in advance.
Yi