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Working with Other Applications 8-4
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Link and Embed Schedules in other Applications
Because Milestones Simplicity is an Object Linking and Embedding server, it is possible to paste entire schedules
into other OLE compliant applications, such as the Microsoft Offi ce applications.
Once embedded or linked, you can launch the schedule from that application, by double-clicking the schedule.
Embed a schedule in another document
An embedded schedule becomes a part of the document in which it is embedded. The embedded schedule is not
linked to the original source schedule—meaning a change in the source schedule does not equate to a change in
the embedded schedule.
1. In Milestones Simplicity, choose Connections | Clipboard | Copy Schedule to Clipboard.
2. In your other Windows document (Word, Excel, or any other OLE application), click Edit | Paste Special.
The document’s Paste Special dialog box appears.
3. Choose Paste and Milestones Professional Schedule Object and then click OK.
4. Close the Milestones Simplicity schedule used in Step 1, and then double-click on the embedded schedule.
The schedule opens in Milestones.
 If you make changes to the embedded schedule, then those changes will be retained in the embedded
schedule in the Windows document (not the source fi le in Milestones) when the schedule is closed.
Link a schedule into another document
When a Milestones Simplicity schedule is inserted into a document as a “linked object,” a connection is maintained
between the source schedule and the inserted schedule—meaning a change in the source schedule equates to a
change in the schedule that was inserted in the document.
1. In your Windows document (Word, Excel, or any other OLE application), click Insert | Object.
2. Under the Create New tab, scroll down the Object type list, and choose Milestones Professional
Schedule.