To make changes to these objects, you
only have to display the object in Access and double-click on it. This automatically launches the
source application and lets you modify the object.
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When you save the object, it is saved within Access.
Suppose that you??™ve written a document management system in Access and have embedded a
Word file in an Access form. When you double-click on the image of the Word document, Word is
launched automatically and you can edit the document.
When you use a linked object, the external application is started, and when you modify
the object the changes are made to the external file, not within your database as they
are with an embedded file.
To edit an OLE object, you must have the associated OLE application installed in
Windows. If you have embedded an Excel .xls file but don??™t own Excel, you can
view the spreadsheet (or use its values), but you won??™t be able to edit or change it.
Embedding Objects
You can embed objects in both unbound and bound object frames, as well as in image frames.
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