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Advantage Series: Integrating and Extending Microsoft XP
Advantage Series: Integrating and Extending Microsoft® XP
Sarah Hutchinson-Clifford
Glen Coulthard


Glossary


Data access page  Interactive Web pages that enable you to view and edit data managed in an Access database.
Destination document  An Office document that contains data copied from another application.
Embedding  A method for sharing data in Microsoft Office applications. Embedded data is fully editable within the destination document and doesn’t retain a connection to its source document.
Frames  Separate area on a Web page for offsetting hyperlinks to a document's table of contents or other pages on a Web site.
Frames page  Document or Web page that contains frames.
HTML  An acronym for Hypertext Markup Language, which is the standardized markup language used in creating documents for display on the World Wide Web.
Linking  A method for sharing data in Microsoft Office applications. In linking, you not only paste the data, you also establish a dynamic link between the source and destination documents.
Office Clipboard  A program, in Microsoft Office, that allows you to copy and move information within or among Microsoft Office applications. Unlike the Windows Clipboard, the Office Clipboard can store up to 12 items and then paste them all at once.
Pasting  A method for sharing data in Microsoft Office applications. Pasting data involves inserting a static representation of the source data into the destination document.
Server application  When sharing data among Office applications, this term refers to the application that was used to create the shared data.
Sizing handles  The tiny boxes that surround a selected object.
Source document  Original document in which information is created for transfer to a destination document.
Spreadsheet component  Microsoft Office Web component for publishing interactive worksheets on the Web.
Web folder  Shortcut to a Web-server location.
Web server  Computer for storing Web pages.
Web toolbar  Microsoft Office toolbar for navigating hyperlinks locally and on the World Wide Web.
Windows Clipboard  A program, in Windows, that allows you to copy and move information within an application or among applications. The Windows Clipboard temporarily stores the information in memory before you paste the data in a new location.




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