Excel Displays Only First Column in Embedded Worksheet

Microsoft Excel displays only the first column in an Auto-Formatted multiple-column worksheet object embedded from a file. This problem occurs when the instance of Microsoft Excel that is opened is subsequently closed. This behavior is exhibited by both the 16-bit and 32-bit versions of Microsoft Excel version 5.0.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2).

For additional information about SR-2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Steps to Reproduce Problem

1. Start a new project in Visual Basic. Form1 is created by default.
2. Add an OLE Client control to Form1. Select the Create From File check box in the Insert Object dialog, and specify a previously saved .XLS file that contains a Auto-Formatted worksheet with more than one column of data. Click OK, and note that the entire spreadsheet is displayed.
3. Set the SizeMode property of the OLE Client control to Autosize.
4. Right-click the control, and select OPEN.
5. Exit from Microsoft Excel.

The first column of the spreadsheet is displayed in a stretched format, but the control retains its same size. Because SizeMode = Autosize, the entire spreadsheet should be displayed but it is not.