OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding. This extension provide linked and embedded objects function to OLE applications. OLE provides applications a standrard way for incorporting objecs created in one program into documents created with other programs. An object might be a passage of formatted text, a part of a spreadsheet, some sounds, or a picture. Unlike information that you copy from one document and paste into another the standard way, a linked or embedded object retains a connection to the application that originally created it. You can return to that application to edit the object whenever you want to just by double-clicking on the object- you don't have to bother with finding the icon for the application, loading the right file, and so on. Better yet, the changes you make automatically appear in the document where you linked or embedded the object.
