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Word hangs during merge
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. Any ideas? Many thanks in advance, -- Pedrom |
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Word hangs during merge
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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word hangs during merge
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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word hangs during merge
Hi ?B?UGVkcm9t?=,
I deleted the local (..of roaming) profile. This must have been corrupt. All is OK now. thanks for reporting back :-) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word hangs during merge - your fix?
I too have just had this problem happen to me - all mail merge word 2000 docs
will no longer connect to excel or access using dde. I have no idea what caused this - just started a few weeks ago. I have search MS KB and this community and verified all settings, but no luck. You mention "I deleted the local (..of roaming) profile. This must have been corrupt. All is OK now.". which profile are you referring too - XP user account? I hope this will fix my problem. Your reply would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, -- Jeff G "Pedrom" wrote: 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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word hangs during merge - your fix? - working
I did a complete re-install of Office 2000, and now DDE works (doing
reinstall-repair did not fix problem). Now just a question of how long this will work before it breaks again. I guess I better switch over my merges to use something other than DDE? Pretty sad that this highly used way of working is so unstable. -- Jeff G "Jeff G" wrote: I too have just had this problem happen to me - all mail merge word 2000 docs will no longer connect to excel or access using dde. I have no idea what caused this - just started a few weeks ago. I have search MS KB and this community and verified all settings, but no luck. You mention "I deleted the local (..of roaming) profile. This must have been corrupt. All is OK now.". which profile are you referring too - XP user account? I hope this will fix my problem. Your reply would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, -- Jeff G "Pedrom" wrote: 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 This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Word hangs during merge - your fix? - working
Hi ?B?SmVmZiBH?=,
I did a complete re-install of Office 2000, and now DDE works (doing reinstall-repair did not fix problem). Now just a question of how long this will work before it breaks again. I guess I better switch over my merges to use something other than DDE? Pretty sad that this highly used way of working is so unstable. Yes, MS has a sad history of abandoning perfectly good technology because they're following the path of some new development. With time, the customer base forgets that something else/better ever existed... My personal preference for version compatibility/reliability is ODBC. The only drawback with this (or any other connection method) is that it doesn't pick up any of the numeric or date formatting from the original file. With Access that's not such an insurmountable problem, as one can define a query with the desired formats. The solution isn't as simple for Excel, meaning you could be spending a lot more time adding formatting switches to the merge fields in the merge documents. If you have datasources/worksheets you use repeatedly, with new main merge documents, it would make sense to create sets of AutoText entries for the merge fields you use a lot. Add them to the mailmerge toolbar (or your own supplemental merge toolbar) so that you can access them quickly. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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