Word OLE Objects working cross platform (Mac to PC)?

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MicrosoftMacLover - 28 Sep 2007 16:34 GMT

I work in a multi-platform environment where we have Mac and PC users.
Obviously, we use Office Mac for the Mac platform and Office 2003 for the PC
platform.

What we have is a server where we have all kinds of documents that are
linked using OLE. This has been used primarlly for a few Mac users.
However, we hired a few new engineers and they'll be using the PC platform.
Is there a way to get the OLE objects to work cross platform?

Essentially, the documents will reside on the server. Mac users will access
the linked documents from the server just like the pc users? Is there anyway
to make this arrangement work?

Thanks in advance for you help!

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Russ - 30 Sep 2007 01:42 GMT

MicrosoftMacLover,
Try reposting your question at newsgroup: microsoft.public.mac.office.word.
They are more familiar with cross platform issues.

I use VBA on MacWord and some workarounds are to use \n, instead of ^13, for
paragraph marks and that MacWord 2004 uses VB5 instead of VB6, so some
functions like split, replace, etc. have to be installed via subroutines on
Mac machines that hope to use VB6 code. Some other things that rely on the
Windows OS are not useable on a Mac, unless of course Windows is running via
the virtual machine software "Parallels".

> I work in a multi-platform environment where we have Mac and PC users.
> Obviously, we use Office Mac for the Mac platform and Office 2003 for the PC
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>
> Thanks in advance for you help!

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