ISMT E-120

ISMT E-120Desktop Applications for Managers

Integrating Applications

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Integrating Applications• Clipboard• Intermediate Formats• Exporting & Importing• Mail Merge – Excel & Access• Integrated Query• Object Linking & Embedding• Hyperlinks

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Clipboard

• Small Application• Always available• Converts Formats• Windows vs. Office Clipboard

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Intermediate Formats

• Text Only– Loses formatting, some content– Lowest denominator– Can be delimited (tab, “”, space, …)

• RTF: Rich Text Format– File contains only text characters– Preserves visual content and format

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Exporting and Importing

• Export Source document knows about destinationOR Converts to intermediate format

• Import Destination document knows about sourceOR Source converted to intermediate format

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Export Examples

• Access to Excel• Excel To Access

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Import Examples

• Access from Excel Import Link

• HTML

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Mail Merge

• Excel– Entire worksheet as source

• Access– Table as source– Query results as source

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Integrated Query

• Query– Data in Excel– Data in Access

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Microsoft Query

• Query Engine from Access• Invoke from Excel• ODBC

– Standard protocol– Drivers for different databases– Masks idiosyncrasies among databases

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Integrating Applications

Cooperative Applications• Clipboard• Intermediate Formats• Exporting & Importing• Mail Merge – Excel & Access• Integrated Query• Object Linking & Embedding (OLE)• Hyperlinks

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Object Embedding

• Copy of source object embedded• No live link maintained• Edit source object within container• More portable – all components go• Files larger

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Object Linking

• Live link between two applications• Change in source updates destination

document• Stores only the location of the original

data, not data itself• Not as portable – why?

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Using OLE

• Text-oriented example

• Presentation-oriented example

• Database-oriented example

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Using OLE - Example• Spreadsheet

• Sound clip

• Database ??

Calls Worksheet

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Integrating Applications• Clipboard• Intermediate Formats• Exporting & Importing• Mail Merge – Excel & Access• Integrated Query• Object Linking & Embedding• Document Hyperlinks

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Document Hyperlinks

• File• Named Object Within File• Web Page• FTP Site

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Hyperlinks: Word

• Bookmark within a Word document• Hyperlink to other Word documents• And to Excel• … to PowerPoint• … to Access

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Hyperlinks: Excel

• Worksheet• Named Range of Cells• Not Defined Names

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Hyperlinks: PowerPoint

• Word– Document, Bookmark, Web Page

• Excel– Worksheet, Named Range

• PowerPoint– Slide Name or Number

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Hyperlinks: Access

• Table• Form• Report• Object-type object-name syntax• Hyperlink to Access database form

ISMT E-120

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