2006/11/15, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:47 AM [GMT+1=CET], Philippe A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/11/13, John King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Philippe A. wrote: >> >>> I need to include a file into a document. I would like this OLE >>> object to appear as an icon. I cannot find how to do that. Is >>> it even possible to do that? Thanks! >> >> I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do. >> >> Do you want the whole external file to appear in the document, or >> do you want an icon in your document that will call up an >> external file? >> >> If it is the latter, could you not insert your preferred icon, >> and then use Format - Picture - Hyperlink to open up the >> external document, rather like hyperlinks on a web page? > > > Yes it's the latter. OLEs are embedded in the doc. But I don't want a > dependency on an external file. I want the file to be embedded in my > doc. > > Thanks for the workaround but it does not alow me to embed external > files into my doc. Sorry but I'm confused. On the one hand you say "Yes it's the latter" meaning you want a hyperlink to open an external document but then you say "But I don't want a dependency on an external file". These two statements completely contradict each other. How do you propose to incorporate an entire file into your document "as an icon"? What conceivable technology could compress an entire file down to icon size and then be able to expand it again when someone clicks on that icon? If you are thinking of Windows thumbnails, they rely entirely on the external file being there. As I said, I'm confused. Please explain.
Let's get back to my first explanation and try it then. Insert an OLE object in a document. For example, insert a spreadsheet into an ODT. The spreasheet will occupy a lot of space. I want it to show up as an icon from which I can either choose to view the contents in a separate window or save it as a file on disk. There is no point always showing OLE objects in full. Word does that. It does not do it perfectly, but it does it well enough.
