no DDE connection to open data for mail merge

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LH1844 - 10 Dec 2004 02:37 GMT

I've done many mail merges from excel to word. All of a sudden when I try to
open data source it tells me that it can't establish a DDE connection to
excel. Anyone know what that means and how to fix?

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 14 Dec 2004 10:23 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TEgxODQ0?=,

> I've done many mail merges from excel to word. All of a sudden when I try to
> open data source it tells me that it can't establish a DDE connection to
> excel. Anyone know what that means and how to fix?

Version of Word? Have you tried searching the Knowledge Base at microsoft.com on
the message you're seeing? There are a number of articles that address the
issue.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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