Hi Phil,
Is your Word installation fully updated? Have you tried running 'Detect and Repair' from the Word and Excel Help menus, or repairing
Office via the Control Panel?
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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
"Phil" <phil[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2AE024FF-23C5-493A-9E75-5C38B9932B9F[ at ]microsoft.com...
[Quoted Text] >I have been using Office 2000 with XP for several years. I have some
> mailmerges where I am using Word in conjunction with Excel and it has worked
> successfully until recently. Now, when I open the form, I get a message that
> says "Waiting for Microsoft Excel to Accept DDE Commands" and hangs. Excel
> has opened with an empty Book1. For a couple of weeks I could get it to work
> by running Office2000 from my Vista laptop and accessing the files across my
> home network. Now, the Vista machine is showing the same symptoms.
>
> I've tried setting up a new form and spreadsheet (in case the original files
> had become corrupted in some way) but that failed as well.
>
> I don't understand why something that has worked for years should fail when,
> as far as I know, I've changed nothing.
>
> Advice, please.
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> regards, Phil
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