Possible to embed non-Office files in Word docs?

[JonC]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Is it possible to embed a non-Office file (such as a .txt file or a zip) into a Word document in Word:Mac 2004? (If the answer is different for 2008, I'd love to know that, too.)

If I go to Insert>Object>From File... and select (say) a .txt file, I get the message:
"The server application, source file, or item cannot be found."

I've read that there is a problem about opening PDFs embedded in docs created by Word for Windows, but this question is about going the other direction, i.e., embedding an object, not extracting it.

Thanks for any help.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Jon:

No. Object Linking and Embedding doesn't work properly on the Mac. You are
limited only to the file types shown in the dialog.

It's still broken in Word 2008.

Cheers

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel
Is it possible to embed a non-Office file (such as a .txt file or a zip) into
a Word document in Word:Mac 2004? (If the answer is different for 2008, I'd
love to know that, too.)

If I go to Insert>Object>From File... and select (say) a .txt file, I get the
message:
"The server application, source file, or item cannot be found."

I've read that there is a problem about opening PDFs embedded in docs created
by Word for Windows, but this question is about going the other direction,
i.e., embedding an object, not extracting it.

Thanks for any help.

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