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

Understanding Embedding

When you embed a file or object, a copy appears in your document. An embedded file maintains no connection to the source application file, so updates to the source file don't change your document.

What are the advantages of embedding?

• Since the document and the data are stored together in the same file, you don't need to maintain links, path names, and source files.
• You don't even have to keep the source data because it becomes part of the document.
• To update the embedded object, you can stay right in your document. You don't have to go out to the source application.

What are the disadvantages?

• The documents that contain embedded objects are larger than other documents, so they may take longer to open and they take up more storage space.
• If you update an embedded graphic, you may end up with a file that prints at a lower resolution than the original (not as clear a copy).
• The embedded document has no relationship to the original document. You have to update each document individually, instead of updating only the source document.

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