XL2000: New Balloon That Contains Picture May Not Be Displayed (213669)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Excel 2000
This article was previously published under Q213669

SYMPTOMS

If you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro that displays a customized Office Assistant balloon, the balloon may not appear on the screen.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur when the following conditions are true:
  • The Text property of the new balloon has been set to include a picture, as in the following example 
    With Assistant.NewBalloon
   .Text = "{<type> <location> <sizing_factor>}"
   .Show
End With
    where <type> is either .bmp, .wmf, or .pict; <location> is the path to the picture; and <sizing_factor> is an optional value that sets the width of the picture.

    -and-
  • <Location> includes a space, as in the following example:
    .Text = "{bmp C:\WINDOWS\Black Thatch.bmp}"
Specifically, this behavior occurs because the space in the path causes the file location to be evaluated as C:\WINDOWS\Black, not C:\WINDOWS\Black Thatch.bmp. If the picture cannot be found in the specified location, the balloon cannot be displayed, and the BalloonError property is set to 4.

WORKAROUND

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To prevent this issue from occurring, enclose the location of the picture file in a double set of quotation marks, as in the following example: 
With Assistant.NewBalloon
     .Text = "{bmp ""C:\WINDOWS\Black Thatch.bmp""}"
   .Show
End With
Now when you run the macro, the balloon appears correctly, and the value of the BalloonError property is zero (0).

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

REFERENCES

For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic forApplications, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

226118 OFF2000: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:10/11/2006
Keywords:kbbug kbpending kbProgramming KB213669
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