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Word cannot re-establish a DDE connection
I have an excel spread that I pass between work and home. I use it for a
datasource in mailmerge. At home I have MSOFFICE2003 PRO. At work I have MSOFFICE2000 PRO. I took the spread and the Word mail merge document home on my stick last night and made changes to both. I had no problems. This morning at work, when I try to open the Excel spread from word mailmerge WORD 2000 PRO says "Word could not re-establish a DDE connection to Microsoft Excel to complete the current task." I have tried saving the excel spread and the word mail merge files in a different folder and then reattempting to open the word mailmerge file -- with no luck. |
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Word cannot re-establish a DDE connection
Try opening the data source using a different method.
-- Richard "rmoritzky" wrote: I have an excel spread that I pass between work and home. I use it for a datasource in mailmerge. At home I have MSOFFICE2003 PRO. At work I have MSOFFICE2000 PRO. I took the spread and the Word mail merge document home on my stick last night and made changes to both. I had no problems. This morning at work, when I try to open the Excel spread from word mailmerge WORD 2000 PRO says "Word could not re-establish a DDE connection to Microsoft Excel to complete the current task." I have tried saving the excel spread and the word mail merge files in a different folder and then reattempting to open the word mailmerge file -- with no luck. |
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Word cannot re-establish a DDE connection
In this case the simplest thing is usually to use the Open Data Source
button on the Mail Merge toolbar to reconnect to your source (which Word somehow occasionally loses track of). But see the KB article "You receive a 'Word could not re-establish a DDE connection' error message in Word" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813989 -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "rmoritzky" wrote in message ... I have an excel spread that I pass between work and home. I use it for a datasource in mailmerge. At home I have MSOFFICE2003 PRO. At work I have MSOFFICE2000 PRO. I took the spread and the Word mail merge document home on my stick last night and made changes to both. I had no problems. This morning at work, when I try to open the Excel spread from word mailmerge WORD 2000 PRO says "Word could not re-establish a DDE connection to Microsoft Excel to complete the current task." I have tried saving the excel spread and the word mail merge files in a different folder and then reattempting to open the word mailmerge file -- with no luck. |
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