> I have form letters in word and use information from an excel data sheet for merging.
Lately every time I try to bring up the data base for the word document I get an error
message "Word could not establish a DDE connection to mircrosoft excel to complete the
task
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> I have form letters in word and use information from an excel data sheet for merging.
> Lately every time I try to bring up the data base for the word document I get an error
> message "Word could not establish a DDE connection to mircrosoft excel to complete the
> task.
Which version of Word?
Try searching the Knowledge Base at microsoft.com on the error message. You should get a
number of "hits", including one for the version of Word you have.
Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org
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