12.3 Embedding Information

This section of your user manual can provide the user with the embedding information and procedures on embedded objects. This section may have some or all of the following topics:

Embedding Existing Objects

Creating Embedded Objects

Editing an Object

Canceling Embedding

Your introduction to embedding could contain the information shown in Figure 45.

Embedding

By embedding information, you gain fast access to the features of another application without having to go to that application each time you want to make a change. The technique of embedding is simple: You copy a selection from one document and then insert it into another. The information you insert is called an object.

When you embed an object, any instructions needed to create the object are inserted along with it. This included the object’s file format, the name of the application that created it, and information about how to display it. You don’t see this information; it is simply to display and edit the object.

Embedding makes editing and updating objects quick and simple. You can just double-click the object to open it in its source application. Then you make your changes and Exit or choose the Update command from the source application’s File menu, and the embedded object is updated automatically. You may also want to use the Object command on the Insert menu to create different types of objects in <your_application_name>.

Figure 45. Sample overview of embedded objects