Edit a linked object or an embedded object

1. On the Edit menu, click Links.
2. In the Links dialog box, in the list of objects, click the linked object, and then click Open Source.
3. Make the changes you want to the linked object.
4. In the source program, click Exit on the File menu, and save the file.

Note  You can preserve formatting changes you make to a Microsoft Excel linked object in your document by selecting the Preserve formatting after update check box in the Links dialog box.

Some programs temporarily replace the toolbars in the open program so that you can remain in that program to edit the object. Other programs start the source program in a separate window and then open the object there for editing.

1. Double-click the embedded object to open it.
2. Make the changes to the object.
3. Return to the Microsoft Word document by doing one of the following:
   • If you edit the object in Word, click anywhere outside the object to return to the destination file.

   • If you edit the object in the source program in a separate window, click Exit on the File menu of the source program to return to the destination file.

Note  Instead of opening a program when double-clicked, some embedded objects— such as video and sound clips— will play. To edit one of these objects, select it, point to object name Object (for example, Media Clip Object) on the Edit menu, and then click Edit.

If you don't have the source program, convert the embedded object to the file format of a program you do have. For example, if your Microsoft Word document contains an inserted Microsoft Works Spreadsheet object (and you don't have Works, but you do have Microsoft Excel), you can convert the object to Excel Workbook format and edit the embedded object in Excel.

1. Select the embedded object you want to edit.
2. On the Edit menu, point to object name Object (for example, Worksheet Object), and then click Convert.
3. Select the new file type in the Object type box.
4. Click Covert to to convert the object you specified in the Object type box, or click Activate as to open the object as the type you specified in the Object type box.