Hi,

I have done a lot of automation work where execs require various charts. I suggest you look at the final deliverable. In my case it was Power Point. The way we tackled it was to have a template based approach where we have the user creating the graphs. Then we used automation to update the charts and some text boxes, the data source could be anything. Works really well, almost like using office as a report writer. With office 2003 the msgraph object model can actually be saved as an XML document hmm...

Hope this helps and gives you an alternative.

I guess this solution works well if your users edit the presentation or document post production.

Regards

Manoj