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Mailmerge not working anymore
I have been using Office 2000 with XP for several years. I have some
mailmerges where I am using Word in conjunction with Excel and it has worked successfully until recently. Now, when I open the form, I get a message that says "Waiting for Microsoft Excel to Accept DDE Commands" and hangs. Excel has opened with an empty Book1. For a couple of weeks I could get it to work by running Office2000 from my Vista laptop and accessing the files across my home network. Now, the Vista machine is showing the same symptoms. I've tried setting up a new form and spreadsheet (in case the original files had become corrupted in some way) but that failed as well. I don't understand why something that has worked for years should fail when, as far as I know, I've changed nothing. Advice, please. -- regards, Phil |
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Mailmerge not working anymore
Hi Phil,
Is your Word installation fully updated? Have you tried running 'Detect and Repair' from the Word and Excel Help menus, or repairing Office via the Control Panel? -- Cheers macropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] "Phil" wrote in message ... I have been using Office 2000 with XP for several years. I have some mailmerges where I am using Word in conjunction with Excel and it has worked successfully until recently. Now, when I open the form, I get a message that says "Waiting for Microsoft Excel to Accept DDE Commands" and hangs. Excel has opened with an empty Book1. For a couple of weeks I could get it to work by running Office2000 from my Vista laptop and accessing the files across my home network. Now, the Vista machine is showing the same symptoms. I've tried setting up a new form and spreadsheet (in case the original files had become corrupted in some way) but that failed as well. I don't understand why something that has worked for years should fail when, as far as I know, I've changed nothing. Advice, please. -- regards, Phil |
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