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From the Edit menu, choose Copy Object Link to copy an object link to the sound file onto the clipboard. You can then Paste (or Paste Special) the link into another application (such as Microsoft Word or WordPad) that supports Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). This feature is useful for embedding sound files in documents.
Object links are simply references to existing sound files on your hard disk or network server. If you embed an object link to a sound file in a document, the sound file is not actually inserted into the document. Therefore, if you copy the document to another computer, any sound file(s) that are embedded will not be available on the other computer unless the sound file is stored on a common network server.
Tips:
If you intend to share documents between computers that contain embedded sound files, store all sound files on a network server and embed them using Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path names. For example, if your server and share name for sound files is \\myserver\sounds, then open and embed all sound files using the UNC path (i.e. \\myserver\sounds\<directory and file name>).
If you are running Windows 98 or Me, UNC path names are simple to use. Instead of using a drive letter when browsing in the File Open dialog, select Network Neighborhood in the Look In field and browse to the appropriate network server and share containing your sound files. This method of browsing uses UNC names exclusively.