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When an object is incorporated into a document, it maintains an association with the object application that created it. Linking and embedding are two different ways to associate objects in a compound document with their object applications. The differences between linking and embedding lie in how and where the actual source data that comprises the object is stored; this in turn affects the object's portability, its methods of activation, and the size of the compound document.
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