Microsoft Office Inside Out (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

Appendix A

Microsoft 365 application integration

Sharing application data

Understanding object linking and embedding

Linking objects

Updating and breaking links

Embedding objects

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. ...