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unable to Query data source via DDE connection
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." When I first installed Office97 for original CD's, everything worked fine. Sometime later, after a Microsoft strongly suggested I upgrade certain files to eliminate a vulnerability problem, mail merge no longer worked. I first ran into this problem years ago when running Office97 on Win98. Mail merge worked when office was first installed, and later quit after I accidentally installed a Microsoft "upgrade." Recently when I upgraded to WinXP, I had the same experience again. Mail merge worked immediately after Office was installed, but malfunctioned somewhat later undoubtedly due to my installing Microsoft vulnerability fixes. (I understand that the old ODBC file had vulnerability issues.) The problem seems to be the same whether I'm seeking to use a dbase or Excel formated file as the data source. Running Microsoft's MDAC component compatibility checker (CC.exe) version 2.0 does not produce an indication of any compatibility problems. Any suggestions would be welcome. |
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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 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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