[Guus]

Hello,
For several years I am using merge documents in Word and Excel.
The Excel files are the result of calculations in SPSS.

Fortunately, SPSS has since a few years an export function of SPSS files to
specific Excel-97 format. As long as I have used Word/Excel-2003, there were
no problems.

But now .... we switched to Office 2007. Merging the Excelsheet (created
with SPSS) with Word gives now complications:
1. Formerly my Word document was linked to the Excel file as:
"MS Excel Worksheet via DDE (*. xls)".
This gives problems:
2. Variant of the Excel File: "OLE DB Database Files" still seems to work
but now every time I have an Excel file, that's created in SPSS, an extra
conversion in Excel is necessary from the xls-file towards and xlsx-file.

SPECIFIC QUESTIONS:
a. How can I fix this problem in Office 2007 ?
SPSS cannot yet convert to Office 2007 format
b. What are the differences between the formats:
(1) "OLE DB database file,
(2) "Worksheet via DDE" and
(3) "Excel files via ODBC"?

Thank you in advance for your help.
Guus