The basic idea was great - copy some cells out of Excel and paste them into Word. You can put your sales statistics into your end-of-quarter report. Then they

The basic idea was great - copy some cells out of Excel and paste them into Word. You can put your sales statistics into your end-of-quarter report. Then they added linking, so when the spreadsheet was updated, your report would update too. So you could make the report early, let Accounting update the spreadsheet, then just let the report auto-update. I'm pretty sure Outlook uses the Word rendering engine. And dragging documents into Outlook is one of the ways to attach/embed a file into the email. So I'm pretty sure this still leverages that code. I'm actually guessing this is almost everywhere. Maybe it didn't get put into Vista (where a number of security enhancements like the 2-level model aka UAC elevation got made) but it's still all over Office. I wonder if IE is impacted.