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Re: Status of Wv2 ?
by rjw on Tuesday 26/Aug/2003, @14:14

I never knew you could get OLE streams into an RTF file. How is this done?

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Re: Status of Wv2 ?
by Charles de Miramon on Tuesday 26/Aug/2003, @15:21

You can embed an ole stream in a RTF file, for example a Excel datasheet in a Word document with the \object tag.

IMHO, embedding one application into another in MSOffice or KOffice is a nice technological trick but is a recipe for ugly looking printed documents because the two applications use different typographical engines, or different fonts. It is also a hog on ressources on a slow computer. It is much more useful, to have intelligent cut&paste for example a wizard to transform a KSpread table in a KWord table.

Cheers,
Charles

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Re: Status of Wv2 ?
by Andy Parkins on Wednesday 27/Aug/2003, @03:15

This is all very well until you want to edit the embeded object. For example, making an invoice: I want the spreadsheet for doing all the formulaeic work and the word processor for putting some nice headers and footer and any covering text in. And then I want that to be a template so I can use it again. As far as I can tell, intelligent cut and paste just won't cope with that sort of job.

Obviously the option to intelligently remark the is nice to have available but I don't think that should preclude the addition of an embedded facility.

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