Sync Word and Excel documents

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tmuetze

Is there any software out there that does the same thing as OneNote 2007 but
also allows you to be interactive with MS Word and Excel within the program.
OneNote only allows you to have a picture of the document and does not allow
you to edit the document in the program or refresh the original document and
show the changes in OneNote.

Thanks, any help would be appreciated...
 
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Rainald Taesler

tmuetze said:
Is there any software out there that does the same thing as OneNote
2007 but also allows you to be interactive with MS Word and Excel
within the program.
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None that I was aware of.
ON is really unique if it comes to synchronization. None of the other
Office applications have anything in this direction. With their data
only synchronization on a file-sync basis is possible. What ON has in
fact is *replication*. Only highly sophisticated data bas systems offer
something similar.
OneNote only allows you to have a picture of
the document and does not allow you to edit the document in the
program or refresh the original document and show the changes in
OneNote.
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Right. But this only is valid for stuff *embedded* in ON.
If a document is only *linked* in ON, the documents can be edited and
saved in their native application called from ON. So one always sees the
original file in it's present state.
Not be mistaken: the letter does not mean that the source-files would be
synched on multiple machines. This has to be done with a system's
general synch-tools.
Rainald
 
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tmuetze

Rainald Taesler said:
None that I was aware of.
ON is really unique if it comes to synchronization. None of the other
Office applications have anything in this direction. With their data
only synchronization on a file-sync basis is possible. What ON has in
fact is *replication*. Only highly sophisticated data bas systems offer
something similar.


Right. But this only is valid for stuff *embedded* in ON.
If a document is only *linked* in ON, the documents can be edited and
saved in their native application called from ON. So one always sees the
original file in it's present state.
Not be mistaken: the letter does not mean that the source-files would be
synched on multiple machines. This has to be done with a system's
general synch-tools.
Rainald

Thanks. I appreciate your help!
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Tom K

Too bad you can click Insert > Object and select to insert an Office object
into a OneNote page like you can with other Office apps. That might solve
tmuetze's problem. Not to mention all the people who keep asking for
Word-style formatting options.

Maybe the next version will have that tighter Office integration?

Tom
 
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