Copying microsoft office autoshapes objects with lotusscript

I need to copy autoshapes objects from an embedded Excel spreadsheet object to an embedded Word Picture object. I know the autoshapes are compatible with the destination object because I can manually copy and paste them and they are accepted. I just can’t find an example syntax for creating or pasting objects into the word.picture.8 object.

Dim estdoc As NotesDocument

Dim destdoc As NotesDocument

Dim rtexcel As NotesRichTextItem

Dim rtwordpic As NotesRichTextItem

Dim srcobject As NotesEmbeddedObject

Dim destobject As NotesEmbeddedObject

Dim destpic As NotesEmbeddedObject

Dim var1 As Variant

Dim var2 As Variant

Dim spreadsheet As String

'Open the source object

spreadsheet = “spreadsheet1”

Set rtexcel = estdoc.GetFirstItem( spreadsheet )

Set srcobject = rtexcel.EmbeddedObjects(0)

If (srcobject Is Nothing) Then

'not found

Else

Set srchandle = srcobject.Activate(True)

numsheets = srchandle.worksheets.count

srchandle.application.workbooks(1).worksheets(1).activate

End If

'just testing, I’m able to grab two autoshapes objects from the source spreadsheet as follows:

Set var1 = srchandle.Application.ActiveSheet.shapes(1)

Set var2 = srchandle.Application.ActiveSheet.shapes(2)

'Open the destination object

Set destdoc = New NotesDocument( db )

Set rtwordpic = New NotesRichTextItem( destdoc, “shape” )

Set destpic = rtwordpic.embedobject(EMBED_OBJECT,“word.picture.8”,“”,“autoshape canvas”)

Set destobject = rtwordpic.EmbeddedObjects(0)

If (destobject Is Nothing) Then

'not found

Else

Set desthandle = destobject.Activate(True)

									

'What command would go here to insert one or more autoshapes into destpic or destobject?									

									

desthandle.save

End If