I've done many mail merges from excel to word. All of a sudden when I try to
open data source it tells me that it can't establish a DDE connection to
excel. Anyone know what that means and how to fix?

Hi ?B?TEgxODQ0?=,

I've done many mail merges from excel to word. All of a sudden when I try to
open data source it tells me that it can't establish a DDE connection to
excel. Anyone know what that means and how to fix?

Version of Word? Have you tried searching the Knowledge Base at microsoft.com on
the message you're seeing? There are a number of articles that address the
issue.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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