Greetings,
My company uses Mathcad for a lot of our calculations and we've developed some standards over the years. One of those standards was the use of embedded excel objects to serve as a header/footer for our calculations (I know that there is a built in header/footer, but it lacks Aesthetics, Flexibility, and Convenience).
There is the dilemma: more often than not, especially with Excel 2013, numerous popup windows and excel windows pop up for every embedded excel object in each Mathcad worksheet; VERY ANNOYING! If there is a solution to this, please tell me.
However, I accepted the fact that there is no 'fix,' so (as an alternative) I developed a header/footer that uses PowerPoint. This works great (no popup windows or nothing to date), BUT I've noticed that Computers with PowerPoint 2013 installed likes to INCREASE the size of the PowerPoint objects when the file was last saved on a computer with PowerPoint 2010 & Computers with PowerPoint 2010 installed likes to DECREASE the size of the PowerPoint objects when the file was last saved on a computer with PowerPoint 2013. Is there a way to suppress this resize? Note that unchecking “Allow Object to Resize Itself" has no influence on this behavior.
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1) Is it possible to Suppress Excel Windows From opening for Every Embedded Excel object?
2) Is it possible to suppress the 'resize' of an embedded PowerPoint object between computers w/ PowerPoint 2010 & 2013 installed?
3) If there is no solution for (1) or (2), is there another object that could be embedded to act as a header/footer? (msFlexTable doesn't work, InputTable lacks aesthetics and manipulation, Mathcad Matrixes lacks aesthetics and manipulation)
4) On a side note, is it possible to program the locations of embedded objects/regions? I am familiar with the "x" and "y" properties of a region located in a Mathcad worksheet, but these properties are read-only, correct? How would one proceed to automate moving a 'region' to a specific location (in vbscript)?
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(NOTE: I have tried embedding a Mathcad object and that works fine for manipulation, but the aesthetics are poor and the runtime is too long.)
Thank you,
-Lemens