Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 97219
Have inserted files appear as an icon in Writer
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
It would be nice to have inserted files appear as an icon in Writer like MS Word does. Then you can double click and see the file. I get documents from MS Word users and can open files inserted in like this, but I can't add new/updated files in the same manner.
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We find this invaluable as we do a lot of reports in this way - where we embed the backing data into the document.
OK - I think I figured this out. 1. Insert Object -> OLE Object 2. Create New -> Further Objects 3. "Create from File" radio button on the left. 4. Click the "Display as icon" checkbox to the right. Can the others also try this and confirm it works fine? If yes - then we can probably transfer this bug to the docs team to update the product documentation accordingly.
Created attachment 60524 [details] Screen Grab of Insert OLE Object dialog
I tried following these steps: 1. Insert Object -> OLE Object 2. Create New -> Further Objects 3. "Create from File" radio button on the left. 4. Click the "Display as icon" checkbox to the right. But I don't have a Display as icon checkbox. See attached screen grab.Tested on OO 3.0 Windows and OO 3.0.1 Mac.
Created attachment 60526 [details] First Step-Insert Object -> OLE Object
Created attachment 60527 [details] InsertOLEObject-CreateFromFile_DisplayAsIcon
Created attachment 60528 [details] Create new -> Further Objects
I suspect you're not following the same steps as I did - it's actually not intuitive at all, and I'm attaching the screen captures here. 1. Insert Object -> OLE Object 2. Create New -> Further Objects - http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/60528/OOo-InsertOLEObject-CreateNew-FurtherObjects.jpg 3. "Create from File" radio button on the left. - http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/60527/OOo-InsertOLEObject-CreateFromFile_DisplayAsIcon.jpg 4. Click the "Display as icon" checkbox to the right.
My primary environments are Mac OS X and OpenSuse 10.3. Testing OO 3.0.1 the Further Objects isn't there on those but it is on Windows. Any chance it'll make its way to Mac or Linux? On my Mac I have received MS Word docs with embedded files as icons.
See also: Issue 67385 With OOo 3.1 on Linux, I have neither the "Further Objects" item, nor the "Display as icon" option. As I understand it, OLE is something developed by MS for Windows, and it only works well on that platform. I guess OOo includes some support for it on other platforms, but it seems to be incomplete.
Mikhail, do we have any plans or concepts to support "iconified" objects on any other platform as Windows?
The iconified objects are supported on all platforms already. The only missing functionality is the possibility to insert such object. The implementation was done as a part of MS-interoperability improvement, and was intended to handle imported MS-documents with iconified objects. This enhancement request looks like a duplicate to issue 61144 for me. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 61144 ***
Closing the duplicate.