<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.28.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 15:46 +0200, William Walter Kinghorn wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Hi All, What might be a possible problem An OLE is where the program ( Excel ) links to a file ( in this case a tif file ) from somewhere else ( eg under c:\mydoc\file.tif ) on linux, we cant get to a file under c:\mydoc\file.tif So, you need to find where that file is, copy it to where you need it, and link ( OLE ) to it via OOo This might be the problem William ________________________________________ </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Hi William, <BR> <BR> Thanks for the suggestion. I had thought of that, but the fact that we can open the embedded object on a different PC, without any possible access to an external version of the embedded file rules this out. It would seem, both from this fact, and the fact of the file size, that the files (.tif or pdf mostly) are "physically" embedded in the spreadsheet.<BR> <BR> Robin </BODY> </HTML>