[jpccol]

Up until last week, my dde merging has worked great. Then I bougt a new
machine and downloaded all XP Pro and Office 2003 updates to both the new and
old machines. Now, my templates don't retain the connection to Excel. I
need to reestablish the connection each time I use the templates. My W2k
machine isn't having this problem, nor is my home XP Pro machine (which also
has all the current updates). Since the data I'm merging is fairly complex
(contracts, wills, etc), I've found Excel using dde the easist to work with
for data entry and editing. Any ideas? Am I missing a setting in the 2
offcie XPPro machines?

[Peter Jamieson]

Obvious question: have you saved the templates after reconnecting the data
source?

Are you using .dot templates and creating new .doc documents from them, or
something else?

Peter Jamieson
"jpccol" wrote in message
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Up until last week, my dde merging has worked great. Then I bougt a new
machine and downloaded all XP Pro and Office 2003 updates to both the new
and
old machines. Now, my templates don't retain the connection to Excel. I
need to reestablish the connection each time I use the templates. My W2k
machine isn't having this problem, nor is my home XP Pro machine (which
also
has all the current updates). Since the data I'm merging is fairly
complex
(contracts, wills, etc), I've found Excel using dde the easist to work
with
for data entry and editing. Any ideas? Am I missing a setting in the 2
offcie XPPro machines?