>>I managed to insert an image into Excel (from a file on disk), with the .Insert method; now, I want to do additional manipulation. Since this is the only graphic, I simply accessed the first image in the collection of images. I don't have the exact code here right now, for reference, but I got it to work, at any rate.
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>>Now, I was wondering what would happen if I inserted several images, or worked with a previous spreadsheet, which may or may not already have images. How do I get the "handle" of the image I just inserted? If I check for the number of images - I guess it would be something like .Images.Count - and it returns a number "n", is it guaranteed that the next image has the number "n+1"? Or is there a better way to handle this?
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>Hilmar,
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>You may reffer to the picture name or/and set the recognizable name. Like:
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>oExcel.activesheet.pictures(2).Name="MyPicture1_Hello"
>lo=oExcel.activesheet.pictures("MyPicture1_Hello")
>....

OK, that may be an interesting alternative. But still, when I just created the picture, how do I know with what name or number I can refer to it? AFAIK, the Insert() method doesn't return this number.