IMO is that only for Text-Files like .ODT, .TXT and so on.

Drawings and tables should be inserted as OLE-objects.

The insert.file command could be enhanced in that way, that non-Writer files are
inserted as OLE objects.

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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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No enhancing of the insert.file command (proposed by mru) as there is it in the
same menu. Could be irritating for some users.
There should come up a information, when a user tries to insert e.g. a
non-writer-file, that this should be done as OLE-object. In the moment there
happens nothing.

"Insert file" should detect whether the file is a graphic, something that the
current application can import with a filter or something that any other OOo
application can insert with a filter. Depending on that the file should be
inserted as graphic, directly or as OLE object.

Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".

*** Issue 24035 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***