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Working with Other Applications 8-5
3. Under the Create from File tab, click the Browse button.
4. Locate the schedule, click once on it, and then click the Insert button.
5.
Link to fi le and then OK. [Go to Step 9.]
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6. In Milestones Simplicity, choose Connections | Clipboard | Copy Schedule to Clipboard.
7. In your other Windows document (Word, Excel, or any other OLE application), click Edit | Paste Special.
The document’s Paste Special dialog box appears.
8. Choose
Paste Link and Milestones Professional Schedule Object and then click OK.
9. Double-click on the linked schedule.
 The schedule will open within Milestones.
 Changes to the source schedule will appear in the linked schedule.
Is linking or embedding the best approach?
Use linking if you want to automatically update the linked schedule in the destination document when the schedule
is updated. Linking is the best approach if you need to maintain the schedule separately from the document you
are including it in. Remember, however, that if you move a document containing links to other objects from your
computer to another computer, you will need to re-link any linked documents.
Embedding is a better choice if you want to keep your document portable.
If different pages of the schedule need to be displayed in another document, then use neither linking nor
embedding—instead paste each schedule page as a picture, as described in the following section.
Paste a Picture of the Schedule into another Application
When you only need a static image of the schedule, generate a metafi le (enhanced picture) of the schedule and
paste it into another application.
Compared to linking/embedding, metafi les take up less space in the other application’s fi le, since just the picture is
pasted and not the entire Milestones Simplicity fi le.
Further, linking and embedding do not support the inclusion of different Milestones Simplicity schedule pages in the
target application.
1. Open Milestones Simplicity and the application in which the metafi les will be pasted.
2. In Milestones Simplicity, choose Connections | Clipboard | Copy Metafi le (Picture) to Clipboard.
3. Click OK when the Chart (metafi le only) is now on the Clipboard message appears.
4. In the other application (Word, Excel, etc.), choose Edit | Paste Special.
5. Choose Picture (Enhanced Metafi le), and then OK.
6. Resize the schedule graphic by clicking and dragging the image’s corners and edges.
7. Repeat for other schedule pages in Milestones Simplicity.