In the drawing server application, select all or part of the drawing and choose the Copy command from the Edit menu. (Do not use Cut because it eliminates the source.)Inserting linked objects is as easy as inserting embedded objects. To continue the example discussed in the previous section, suppose that instead of embedding the drawing, the user wanted to insert a link to the drawing. The following steps would be required:
In the drawing server application, select all or part of the drawing and choose the Copy command from the Edit menu. (Do not use Cut because it eliminates the source.)
Switch to the text client application.
In the text client application, position the cursor as desired and choose the Paste Link (or Paste Special) command from the Edit menu.
Note that the only difference between linking and embedding an object is the selection of Paste Link instead of Paste in the final step.
This procedure inserts a linked object to the drawing at the current cursor location in the text document. The drawing is displayed in the text document but stored in the original drawing file. The link is an "automatic" link; in other words, whenever the drawing file changes, the linked drawing in the text file is updated automatically. Automatic and manual links are described more fully in the section, "Links and Links Dialogs," later in this chapter.