OLE!

What was this link thing I was talking about? Suppose we go to Microsoft Excel and revise our total for August. Let’s change it to be 10. When you hit the Enter key, the graph automatically changes. What happened to the graph in Microsoft Word? Did it update, too?

Trust but verify. Switch to Microsoft Word and review your results. Yep, yep yep. That’s pretty exciting, isn’t it?

The technical term for what we did is called OLE: Object Linking and Embedding. Paste Special.

That’s it for this chapter of Take a Byte. Wow, we did a lot of work today. You done good. You can have two cookies.