Chapter 29: Sharing Data with Other Office Applications
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If you double-click the embedded object, you notice that Word’s Ribbon is replaced by the Excel
Ribbon. In addition, the embedded object appears with Excel’s familiar row and column borders.
In other words, you can edit this object in place by using Excel’s commands. Figure 29.8 shows the
Word document after double-clicking the embedded Excel workbook. To return to Word, just
click anywhere in the Word document.FIGURE 29.8Double-clicking the embedded Excel object enables you to edit it in place. Note that Word now displays
Excel’s Ribbon.
Caution
Remember that no link is involved here. If you make changes to the embedded object in Word, these changes
don’t appear in the original Excel worksheet. Because the embedded object is a copy of the original workbook,
it is completely independent from the original source. n