Microsoft Office 2019 Inside Out, First Edition

Appendix AOffice application integration

Sharing application data

Understanding object linking and embedding

Linking objects

Updating and breaking links

Editing embedded objects

Sharing data with Outlook using actions

The Office 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 a suite of well-integrated applications.

In this appendix, we 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 also look at the two different ...