Hour 20. Integrating with Other Office Products

Hour 20. Integrating with Other Office Products

Chances are that you acquired Word as a part of Office 2003. If Word is the only Office application you use, no problem ”there's nothing wrong with ignoring Word's siblings. If, however, you do use other Office applications and want to use data from them in your Word documents, you'll learn some useful techniques in this hour. (Even if you're only using Word 2003, you may still want to skim this hour to learn general principles related to integrating Windows applications.) Keep in mind that you can integrate Office applications in many ways ”this hour does not discuss all of them. Rather, it introduces a few methods that you can use as a jump-off point for further exploration.

The highlights of this hour include

• Inserting linked data from an Excel worksheet in your Word document

• Embedding data from Excel in your Word document

• Exporting a PowerPoint presentation to a Word document

• Adding an individual PowerPoint slide to a Word document

• Using data from Outlook in your Word documents

• Importing data from an Access table or query into a Word table