Embed MS Excel File in FM8?

Stuart Rogers srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com
Fri May 13 08:00:00 PDT 2011


On 11/05/2011 5:33 PM, Miller, Chris M wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can I embed a MS Excel file into FrameMaker as a link so that when I
> convert it to PDF or WebHelp (via RoboHelp) the Excel file is accessible
> to the reader? My research tells me “no” but figured I’d reach out to
> the FM gurus of the group to double-check. ;)
>

You can't achieve that result with the method you propose, but you could 
put a hypertext marker into the FM file that would open the Excel file 
-- provided that it resides in a fixed location accessible to the person 
using the PDF.

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