Unfortunately, the issue of external file inclusion has nothing to do with my
issue, but only with recent versions of Publisher, as I learned in my digging
for help. The following comes from  
http://publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=157.
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Publisher customers of a previous version may not realize that the handling
of external files changed between version 2000 and version 2002. Hence, a
customer of Publisher 2000 (or prior) may incur some frustration when moving
to version 2002 and/or 2003. I will illustrate the change and explain how it
affects you.

Through version 2000, Publisher included external files in the default
Publisher directory "Publish," located under My Documents. Publisher would
make a copy of your external file and place that copy in the Publish folder.
If you hyperlinked text on your Publisher web page to a pdf file residing on
your local drive, the successful linking of the external file would be a
process invisible and seamless to you. The external file gets copied by
Publisher into the "Publish" folder, then you upload the "Publish" folder to
your web site and you automatically have a functional link to an existing
file.

As of version 2002 there are the following changes. Publisher no longer has
a specified "Save To" directory. Use of the "Publish" folder is discontinued.
If you have a previous version and have the "Publish" folder, then you can
opt to either delete it, or continue to use it yourself. The new versions
"Save" by default to "My Documents." Publisher now generates a sub-folder by
default (an optional program setting) in the Publisher web site. Publisher
names the sub-folder with the same name you save the web as. All site files
after the home page are created within the sub-folder.

Then, there is the big change for which this article exists. As of version
2002, Publisher no longer copies external files or includes such files in the
Publisher web. The burden of using external files with the Publisher web
falls on you, the customer. If you followed the same steps in version 2002 or
2003 that you used in version 2000, you would discover that the links to your
external files fail. That is because - 1) the external file was not uploaded
- and 2) because the hyperlink is pointing to the original file path on your
local drive.
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So "the big change for wich this article exists," is that they removed a
massively impactful feature of the product ("the successful linking of the
external file would be a process invisible and seamless to you.") and don't
explain it anywhere. Nor is there any help either in Publisher of PowerPoint
to explain the "Publish to Website" requirements. Sort of like buying a
candle without a wick!

That's simlistic. You fail to mention 1. WHERE to upload it (root directory;
sub-folder); and
2. HOW to link to it (INSERT > OBJECT or HYPERLINK).

I do know what OLE means. In fact, the exact thing I wanted to do was to take
an OBJECT (powerpoint presentation) and LINK or EMBED it into my web page.
Anyway, I've done it now. I'm only sorry it took hours to do what MS
Publisher used to do "seamless and transparently" to the user.

Again, thanks for revealing your Q&A and Article references. Learning is
tough when MS doesn't provide a User's Manual (printed or electronic).
Without your help, there is no way I would have learned that PUBLISHER falls
short of its advertised capabilities.

I feel like Charlie Brown going to kick that football again. I always
naively expect the PROMISE to meet the PRACTICE. And it always falls short.

Enough of this thread. Thanks for your help.
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