Thanks for your reply Cindy. I browsed MS KB for some time and the Internet,
without success. However I have found the answer.

I deleted the local (..of roaming) profile. This must have been corrupt. All
is OK now.

Cheer's
--
Pedrom


"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?UGVkcm9t?=,

Doing a Word\Excel mailmerge in Office 2000. When entering the Excel data
file, Word will hang with 'initiating DDE link with Microsoft Excel' at the
bottom of the screen.

Ths same merge will work on other machines.

There's very little you can do (other than reinstalling Windows and the rest
of the software). There are articles on microsoft.com about not being able to
establish DDE links, but they mostly summarize to "that's the way it is, tough
luck"

WD2000: ErrMsg: "Word could not re-establish a DDE connection to Application
to complete the current task."
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=224048

The only thing you can control, which COULD be a factor (but usually isn't) is
to check that DDE isn't being locked out by Excel, itself:
Tools/Options/General/Ignore other applications needs to be UNchecked.

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

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