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I was pretty young at the time, but I can't really remember much of a use for OLE outside of Visual Basic? (Which granted, was Big). Maybe databases also?
by overgard 5y ago
I was pretty young at the time, but I can't really remember much of a use for OLE outside of Visual Basic? (Which granted, was Big). Maybe databases also?
- skissane 5y agoPeople used it so you could stick an Excel spreadsheet inside a Word document. People also used it to attach attach Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents to emails as OLE objects, which would be stored in TNEF format. This worked fine within a local network when everyone was running Outlook and Exchange, but caused problems when people started sending emails out over the Internet (remember winmail.dat files?). More recent versions of Outlook+Exchange prefer to just use MIME.