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I don't think this adequately addresses the counterexample of the Word toolbars. Sure, there's Excel, but what if I want the tabular data to live in my Word doc
by wildrhythms 4y ago
I don't think this adequately addresses the counterexample of the Word toolbars. Sure, there's Excel, but what if I want the tabular data to live in my Word document? Now the Microsoft engineers are building a whole secondary table editing system into a word processor...
- shakna 4y agoIf everything is modular, you can copy any feature between the various parts of your office applications. You've got a plugin doing one thing, and a host whose one thing is bundling all of those one things together.
- jimmaswell 4y agoThis could just call Excel with COM
- kevingadd 4y agoThis is one of the things that motivated the creation of OLE and COM, so that you could embed an entire Excel spreadsheet into a Word document.