6.2 About compound documents

Compound documents are basically documents that contain data from more than one application. When viewing the document, you can see and edit the data from both applications.

For example, a compound document could be a text document from a word processor that contains a picture from a painting application. In OLE/COM terminology, the word processor is the container application and the painting application is the server application.

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