[Akron]

We had no problems with this at all in Word 2003, but since moving to Word
2007 last week, when doing a mail merge, I'm receiving the error message
about Word not being able to re-establish a DDE connection. Just as we did
in Word 2003, we selected in the Word options to "confirm file format
conversion on open". Then when we select the Excel file for the merge, we
select "MS Excel Worksheets via DDE". At this point, we're getting the error
message.

We discovered that if we put a copy of the Excel file on our desktop, it
will open the file and do the merge just fine. But, if we try to go to
shared folders to retrieve the Excel file, the error message comes up. As I
mentioned, this error did not occur in Word 2003 - this is new to us in 2007.