Microsoft® Excel® 2010 Inside Out

Chapter 31. Linking and Embedding

Embedding vs. Linking

Embedding vs. Static Pasting

Embedding and Linking from the Clipboard

Embedding and Linking with the Object Command

Managing Links

Linking vs. Hyperlinking

MICROSOFT long ago stopped using the term object linking and embedding (OLE) to describe its technology for creating “compound” documents—that is, documents that integrate data from multiple applications. But the technology is still there, and if you work with the full suite of Microsoft Office 2010 applications, you will undoubtedly have occasions to take advantage of it.

Part of the reason that OLE has disappeared from Microsoft’s formal vocabulary is that linking and embedding capabilities are nearly universal in major Windows applications ...