Microsoft Office 2010 applications also provide the ability to embed data into a document from any server application that supports the OLE technology.
After embedding, the data becomes part of the specific Microsoft Office 2010 application document. When such data is edited, the server application is launched from within the client application. The inserted object is saved together with the document file, and editing it does not affect the original file.
Once the server application is loaded from the client application, the embedded object can be viewed and processed while simultaneously seeing the document into which the object has been embedded. This capability is called in-place activation.
Embedding an object into a Microsoft Office Word 2010 document can be done in two ways:
- Using the Object dialog box, which allows the embedded object to be created directly in the client application:
- On the Create New tab, you can select the embedded object by the type of server application.
- On the Create from File tab, you can select the embedded object as a file.
NOTE
In this case, in the Object dialog box, the Link to file option should not be selected.
- By copying from the document in which the object already exists.
Inserting embedded objects into a Microsoft Office 2010 document is done through two types of applications:
- Any server applications that support OLE.
- Add-ins that come with Microsoft Office 2010. Add-ins are not standalone applications and can only be used from within a client application.
Windows applications that only partially support OLE may not appear in the Object dialog box. However, it is possible to embed such objects in one of the following ways:
- Perform a copy in the server application document.
- In the client application, go to the Home tab of the ribbon, and in the Clipboard group, click the arrow on the Paste button, then select the Paste Special command from the list.