Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Working with Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)

OLE provides the easiest way to place Visio 2007 shapes or diagrams into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other applications that support the Windows Clipboard and OLE. When you use OLE to place Visio 2007 shapes or diagrams, you maintain a connection with Visio, so you can edit the shapes or diagrams using Visio tools and features. OLE is just a broad name for the technology that allows you to use information from one application in another. All the Office System applications support OLE, which means that you can insert and edit Office documents within Visio 2007, or add Visio diagrams to Office documents, as Figure 7-1 shows. Although OLE has been around for a while, you might not be familiar with ...