Re: Word 97 Linking "Features"

[Laurie Little <llittle -at- GSALINK -dot- COM>]

I'm interested in any responses you get too; could you post a summary
please?
Thanks
Laurie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hope Cascio [SMTP:hope -dot- d -dot- cascio -at- US -dot- ARTHURANDERSEN -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 1998 10:51 AM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Word 97 Linking "Features"
>
> Have any of you used the Paste Special as RTF Link feature in Word to
> create OLE links between Word 97 documents?  (This is where you copy
> text
> from one Word doc, select Paste Special from the menu in the new doc,
> then
> select Paste as RTF from the list box and the Paste as Link radio
> button in
> the Paste Special dialog box, creating an OLE link that can be
> manually or
> automatically updated.) I'm considering proposing this as the solution
> to
> our single source needs, so we can use some of the online Help topics
> we've
> already written in creating a new user's manual.  I've searched
> Microsoft's
> site, with no results either way on whether there are known issues
> with
> this feature.  I've also asked around, and no one has used it much,
> but no
> one has had problems with it either.  If you know of any problems with
> this, please respond off list.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Hope Cascio, Knowledge Transfer Developer
> hope -dot- d -dot- cascio -at- us -dot- arthurandersen -dot- com
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