Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
    • Using the Clipboard
    • Selecting Text for Copying or Moving
    • Selecting Graphics
    • Copying Information Between Windows
    • Moving Information Between Windows
    • Sharing Information Between Applications
    • Understanding Linking
    • Creating Links
    • Understanding Embedding
    • Embedding Objects
    • Using the ClipBook Viewer
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

Creating Links

To create a link from a source document to the document you have open:

1. Start the application that created the source file.
2. Open the source file.
3. Select the data you want to copy. Choose Edit, Copy.
4. Switch to the document to which you want to add the linked data.
5. Position your cursor (insertion point) where you want to place the data or item.
6. Choose Edit, Paste Special. The Paste Special dialog box appears (see Figure 7.2).
   

   Figure 7.2 The Paste Special dialog box is where you have the additional option of displaying your link as an icon.

7. Select Paste Link.
8. Choose a display format in the As box.
9. If you'd rather see an icon in your document instead of the linked data, select Display as Icon. Figure 7.3 shows an example of an icon in a document. If you don't choose Display as Icon, the linked object appears in your document, similar to Figure 7.4.
   

   Figure 7.3 A pasted link displays as an icon. Double-click the icon to open the link.

   

   Figure 7.4 The linked data displays in the document.

10. Click OK.

Some applications let you link data by using drag-and-drop. To do this:

1. Start up both applications—the application where you want to put the data (the destination application) and the application that created the data (the source application).
2. In the source application, open the file that contains the data you want to copy. In the destination application, open the document where you want to put the data.
3. Point to an empty space on the taskbar and click your right mouse button.
4. Choose Tile Vertically or Tile Horizontally from the pop-up menu to make both windows show at the same time.
5. Starting in the source application window, select the data you want to link.
6. Hold down the Control and Shift keys, and drag the selected data to your destination document.
7. Release the mouse button to drop the data where you want it to appear in the document.

Once your linked data appears in a document, your application tries to update that information each time you open that document. If a dialog box appears asking if you want to refresh the information, answer Yes.

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