[Laura[_4_]]

Hi Doug,

Boy do I need you right now.. I don't know what else to do. I have a laptop
next to me with a similar configuration and it works, but not on my PC.
i.e., same operating system and same version of Office.

The Option "Ignore DDE requests" is and was unchecked on both machines.
The Option "Enable DDE refresh" IS checked.

What else can it be? I need to do this mailmerge on the PC, if possible.
Could it be an XP issue?

Laura

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com"
wrote in message ...
From the Tools menu in Access, select Options and then go to the advanced
tab and make sure that the Ignore DDE requests box is unchecked.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Laura" wrote in message
...
I hope someone can help me soon as I'm very frustrated. I have Office 2000
Professional and Windows XP SP3. I recently reinstalled everything on my
computer after doing a system restore and for some reason which I cannot
work out, I cannot do a Mail Merge using a Table in Access (or even a
Spreadsheet in Excel) with Word.

I have my Word document open and I click on Tools, Mail Merge, Active
Window. When I click on Get Data and locate my Access table it opens the
Access table and then it hangs and eventually I have to quit Word all
together. I see this message on the status bar of Word -

waiting for microsoft access to accept dde commands

But nothing happens. I'm at my wits end. I have uninstalled Office and
re-installed it.. still nothing. What is the problem? Hope someone can
help soon - I have a huge mailmerge to do tomorrow.

Thanks
Laura