[Peter Jamieson]

One thing that can occur with DDE connections to Access is that
a. Access starts
b. Access displays a dialog box, but behind the Word window
c. you never see the box and so do not respond to it, so Word "times out"

So try Alt-tab to cycle through the available windows.


Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

On 23/12/2009 18:06, JimAA wrote:
I upgraded to Office 2007 and am getting an error message ("unable to
reestablish a DDE connection with MS Access to complete the current task")
with mail merge documents that use parameter queries. I have two unrelated
tables (approx. 4,000 records in each) that make up the query where the user
enters a job number to filter. I've searched this and other discussion groups
and tried the suggestions to no avail (make sure DB is not exclusive or
read-only; "confirm file format conversion on open" is selected, etc.). The
other data source options (OLE DB and ODBC) don't let you choose parameter
queries.
Any ideas?