Microsoft Word Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft))

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Chapter 15

Text is text is text, but Microsoft Word offers much more than simple text management and enhancement techniques. Your Word documents can literally sing, if you choose to add audio clips or voice-overs. They can tell a story, if you choose to add a video segment. Your Web pages can teach, if you want to add a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to the page you create in Word.

Word makes it easy to both link and embed files (which are called objects for this operation). That means you can work with files you create in other programs, whether they're Microsoft Office applications or not. This chapter gets you up to speed on incorporating objects in your documents, whether you want to add multimedia effects or something more sedate, like a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or a bit of Microsoft Access data.

What kinds of things might you want to link? You've got all sorts of choices: a sound file, a table, a video clip, an equation, data tables, images, a presentation file, or another Word document.