Author: Tomas Rutkauskas

I have an Excel object in a Word document. I want to read the content of the Excel 
object from my Delphi program. How can I do that?

Answer:

1   { ... }
2   var
3     AWordApplication: WordApplication;
4     AWordDocument: WordDocument;
5     AWorkBook: ExcelWorkBook;
6     AWorkSheet: ExcelWorkSheet;
7     AInlineShape: InlineShape;
8     AFileName: OleVariant;
9     TrueParam: OleVariant;
10  begin
11    AWordApplication := CoWordApplication.Create;
12    try
13      FalseParam := False;
14      AFileName := 'c:\wordexcel.doc';
15      AWordDocument := AWordApplication.Documents.Open(AFileName, EmptyParam,
16        EmptyParam,
17        EmptyParam, EmptyParam, EmptyParam, EmptyParam, EmptyParam,
18        EmptyParam, EmptyParam, EmptyParam, EmptyParam);
19      AInlineShape := AWordDocument.InlineShapes.Item(1);
20      AInlineShape.Activate;
21      AWorkBook := AWordDocument.InlineShapes.Item(1).OLEFormat.Object_ as
22        ExcelWorkBook;
23      AWorkSheet := AWorkBook.ActiveSheet as ExcelWorkSheet;
24      ShowMessage(AWorkSheet.Cells.Item[2, 1].Text);
25    finally
26      AWordApplication.Quit(FalseParam, EmptyParam, EmptyParam);
27      AWordApplication := nil;
28      AWordDocument := nil;
29    end;
30  end;