Link OLE Objects in Drawings

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Link OLE Objects in Drawings

 

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Link OLE Objects in Drawings

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Concept

Procedure

Quick Reference

To link objects in a drawing

1. Start the source application and open a document.
2. Select the information you want to link and copy it to the Clipboard.
3. Open the drawing.
4. Click Home tab Clipboard panel Paste drop-down Paste Special.At the Command prompt, enter pastespec
5. In the Paste Special dialog box, click Paste Link.

   Paste Link pastes the contents of the Clipboard into the current drawing and creates a link to the file in the source application. If you click Paste, the Clipboard contents are embedded instead of linked.

6. In the As box, select the data format you want to use.
7. Click OK.

 Command entry: PASTESPEC