> Has this been tried before? Yes, on Windows this technology is called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). It allows embedding (parts) of other applications'

> Has this been tried before? Yes, on Windows this technology is called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). It allows embedding (parts) of other applications' documents in a document. Nowadays only a few programs besides the MS Office suite provide OLE capability. For example, you can embed a complete Word document inside an Excel cell by clicking: Insert -> Object -> Microsoft Word Document. By double clicking this object, the Word UI opens up inside Excel.