'Reverse-engineer' embedded linked objects

[John Svendsen]

Hi All,

I've bumped into an interesting situation - I need to translate text in
embedded linked worksheet/charg object, but I do not have the source files.

Has anybode heard of any way of 'reverse-engineer' an embedded linked
object, i.e., create an excel/word/chart/etc file with the data in these
objects?

I would think this is possible since if one ungroups these objects, they are
broken up into umpteen shapes, where some have the objects data (text,
numbers, etc).

Is putting new textboxes over the old text the only [inelegant] way? Food
for thought...

Regards, JS