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OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding. It is a technology for transferring and sharing information among applications. Different applications expose their objects that are related to the kind of data the application works with. Automation client is an application that exposed objects belonging to another application. In our case, our VB program will act as an Automation client. An Automation server is an application that exposes programmable objects to other applications. In our case, Excel will act as an Automation server. Excel exposes Automation objects. These objects have properties and methods as their external interface. Properties are named attributes of the Automation object. Methods are functions that work on an Automation object.