Hi WindsurferLA,

I'm running Office97 on WinXP-pro. I would like to be able to use a
query with mail merge to select records. When I seek to execute a
query, machine hangs up and I get error message, "Word could not
re-establish DDE connection to Microsoft Query to complete the current
task."

And do you expressly NEED to use MS Query, or could you get along with
Word's built-in Query options? If you need MS Query, what kind of query
are you trying to use (the SQL)?

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

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