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Right — as I remember, if you embedded an Excel object into Word, the Excel part was implemented in a DLL that loaded directly into the Word process space. This would have been so much more stable if it instead started a headless Excel server process. With DCOM, this kind of cross-process COM worked great, but that came much later. OLE 1.0 preceded COM by several years.



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