What does the Microsoft Office Template do?
It brings in-place editing to Microsoft Office 97 applications. This means a couple of things. One: just as with Active Document support that you get with Notes 4.6’s Internet Explorer component and Word and Wordpro as alternate mail editors, you can use these entire applications and their features from within Notes. So you could be using the IE 3 component to browse for research stuff on the Web; then use Word or Wordpro to edit documents or Excel to fill in an expense report and all the applications are borderless. You don’t need to load and re-load, and you get all the services that come as part of Notes like replication and security, full text search and database sharing. How does in-place editing with Active Documents differ from the way Notes supported using other applications previously? With Notes Release 4 we supported OLE 2.0 “edit in place” functionality so you could use non-Notes applications like a word processor, for example, in place of the Notes editor. But it wasn’t a
