Inserting objects into Canvas documents You can use three methods to insert objects in a Canvas document: the Clipboard, drag-and-drop, and the Insert Object command. The objects you insert can be either linked or embedded. Clipboard    When you copy Canvas objects to the Clipboard, Can- vas places OLE formats, as well as lower-fidelity formats, on the Clipboard. When you paste into another program, that program receives the highest-fidelity format it can accept. If the other program is an OLE container, pasting creates an embedded OLE object. The same applies when pasting into Canvas; Canvas creates an embedded OLE object if OLE formats are available on the Clipboard. Drag-and-drop    In Windows, you can drag objects from Canvas documents to almost any destination on the Desktop (including local and network folders) to create a “scrap” file containing the objects. You can also drag Canvas objects into other documents, and drag objects, such as scrap files and other program’s objects, directly into Canvas documents. When you drag an object to another program, it creates an embedding. You can copy an object when you drag it by pressing a modifier key. Normally, dragging moves the object. If you want to copy the object, rather than move it, Ctrl-drag the object to another document. This copies the object and creates an embedding. Insert Object    The Insert Object command in the Edit menu opens a dialog box in which you can choose any registered OLE object type to insert into a document. You can create a new object or choose a file as the source of the embedded object. To embed objects When you embed an object in another document, you can use the original program’s tools and commands to edit the object. Note: Not all programs support OLE and can create embeddings. 1 Select the objects you want to embed in another document. 2 Choose Copy in the Edit menu. Canvas puts the selection on the Clipboard. 3 Switch to the document where you want to embed the selection and choose Paste in the Edit menu. The object is embedded into the document.
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