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Note: The use of OLE objects is only possible with the Windows version of Presentations.
With Presentations for Windows, you can embed objects created with other applications (drawings, pictures, etc.) in your document.
Example: You can use the ribbon command Insert | OLE object frame (click directly on the icon itself) to start the Windows Paint program from Presentations and draw something in it. If you exit Paint, the drawing will appear in the Presentations document. It is now embedded in the document.
Advantage: You only have to double-click the drawing in the Presentations document and Paint will then be restarted automatically. If you now edit the drawing in it and exit Paint again, your changes will be imported by Presentations.
For this to work, the application that you choose must support OLE. OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding. The object that is imported from the other application into Presentations is called an OLE object.
Depending on your preference, you can either embed an OLE object in a document or insert it in the form of a link to a file.
▪When embedding an OLE object, the object is newly created by another program and then permanently integrated into the Presentations document. Thus, it exists only in the Presentations document.
▪Linking works in a similar way, except that the OLE object (the drawing, picture, etc.) exists as a separate file in this case. You only insert a link to this file in the Presentations document. If you subsequently use another program to change something about the original file and then open the Presentations document, the changes will also be visible there. Thus, the OLE object itself is not embedded in the Presentations document but only a copy of the object.
All further information on working with OLE objects can be found on the following pages. The information covers the following topics:
▪Changing OLE object properties via the ribbon tab