Terry, you don't need it to be in the clipboard at all.

That's your problem resolving this -- I mean it's why you are having so much trouble envisioning the proper solution. You're dragging in emulation of user interaction to perform a programmatic function, in a way that is just not needed <s>.

Sample code, let's see.

First, a short thing you can do in the command window for an illustration:

cData = "3" + CHR(9) + "5"
cData = cData + CHR(13) + CHR(10) + ;
        "1" + CHR(9) + "5"

CREATE CURSOR x (onefield g)
APPEND BLANK
APPEND GENERAL x.Onefield CLASS ;
   "msgraph.chart" DATA cData

CREATE FORM c:\temp\x
* put an oleboundcontrol in the form.
* bind it to x.Onefield.

DO FORM c:\temp\x.scx

OK so far?

Do you need the code that actually uses this during a report run, or can you envision from here? Basically you stick some code in report OnEntry and/or OnExit events to affect the contents of x.Onefield as you go.

If I remember correctly you have to GO RECNO() IN x to get the graph in the form to refresh so that the report entry refreshes as you go through the records.

There is nothing interactive, and no clipboard use. And you don't *show* the form, remember, you just use the binding to change the properties of the graph object.

You can get the appropriate graph object object model from a really obscure CHM file, also delivered with office. In my current version I think it's called VBAGR10.CHM.

HTH,

>L<