In Word 7.0, when you open a Word 97 document that contains a Microsoft Excel chart object, and you double-click the Excel chart object, the Word Picture Editor is opened instead of Excel.

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To open a Word 97 document containing an Excel chart object in Word 7.0, and to be able to double-click the Excel chart object to open Excel, install the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Import Converter. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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