Microsoft Office 2010 In Depth

A. Office Application Integration

The Office 2010 application suite provides specific software applications for specific jobs: Word for documents, Excel for spreadsheets, PowerPoint for presentations and Outlook for email management. However, Office isn’t just a collection of unrelated software tools; it is actually a suite of well-integrated applications.

In this appendix we take a look at how you can integrate information from an Office application into another application. For example, you might want to insert an Excel workbook into a Word document. We will look at the two different ways of sharing data between applications: linking and embedding.

Sharing Application Data

Many of us share information on corporate networks via network shares ...