An object is something that is controlled by another application. You copy an object to excel to display the object in the spreadsheet, but the underlying application comes up when you double-click to edit the contents of the object.
For example, a spreadsheet object can be brought into a word-processing document. Any time the spreadsheet object is updated in the original spreadsheet software, the object is automatically updated in the destination document.
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An embedded object is something that is stuck into another object. Embedded means that the object is usually not going to come out of the other object readily.
Yes, a spreadsheet is an object. It is a noun... a "thing."
If it is linked then when the data in the spreadsheet is changed, that change will show in the Word document. If it is embedded, then changes in the spreadsheet will not have any effect on the figures in the Word document.
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OLE Object
Embedded Object
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Object Linking and Embedding.