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I have this project which is using Excel as a calculation
and graphics engine, in the background of an APW
program. The student enters data from an experiment
into APW. APW launches EXCEL as a minimised program,
and sends the data via DDE. APW can pick up the cells
via DDE.

This works so far. My problem is that Excel generates a
chart and I don't know how to get this back into APW.
I had thought I might be able to write a DLL using
the Movewindow function, but the chart is a child
window of Excel, and I want to keep Excel in the
background. So I don't think this would work.

I can tell Excel to copy the chart onto the clipboard.
Now what I need is a dll that will paste a metafile into
Authorware. Has anyone ever done this ( or have any
ambitions in that direction ?)

Steve Brydges
Cal Support Group
University of Nottingham