Questions tagged [dde]
DDE is Dynamic Data Exchange, a process Microsoft introduced in Windows 2.0 (1987) that allows a program to connect to, communicate with, or control other program(s).
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DDE items rewritten with _xlbgnm prefix in Excel
Some DDE formulas in Excel documents are rewritten when the file is saved and reloaded. The item part of the formula is prefixed with _xlbgnm, for example:
=App|Topic!ABC1
is changed to:
=App|Topic!...
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MS Word mail merge: "word could not re-establish a DDE connection to microsoft access"
I have several mail merge documents that I created in MS Word 2007. These have worked very well with MS Access 2007 for years.
The only problem that I had to solve during creation of the documents was,...
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Libre-office calc: copy cells from different file with automatic cell number addressing
In libre-office I need to load a lot of data from one file into another file.
To load the cell content, I use to code below:
=DDE("soffice";"file://path-to-my-file/my-file.xlsx";&...
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Excel 2010 Open in new instance DDE disabled
I have enabled "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)" so that when I open an excel file it opens a new instance, however that file is not loaded.
I then have to open the ...
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Open separate instances of workbooks excel 2010
I've seen a few questions of this, but most were really old. However it seems I have an interesting twist.
The basic question is how to open two workbooks in two different monitors in Excel 2010. ...
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Excel 2013 DDE function
I have a problem with the DDE function in Excel 2013.
When I try to use =DDE(X, y, Z) the function does not appear in Excel.
I know that maybe it is a stupid question but after an hour I can't find ...
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App looking for Word 2007 as dependency, doesn't work with only Word 2010 installed
I have an old app I'm running and one of its functions is generating reports. Now, the thing is, whenever I want to generate a report, the app creates an RTF file and tries to find Word 2007 to open ...
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How can we transfer data from one open Excel file to another in real time?
We have below situation and want the data to be transferred live, Any Help Please.
2 Separate Users - Gautam & Milan - Logged in to Windows RDP Server
2 Separate PC - PC1 & PC2
2 Separate ...
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After ignoring DDE function, cannot open separate instances of Excel [duplicate]
I looked up a method of opening multiple files in separate instances of MS Excel, as I have both a landscape oriented and portrait oriented monitor and need to use both. The common method of doing so ...
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Excel 2010 crashes: Excel.exe 0xc0000005 when trying to highlight from pivot table
One of our users uses pivot tables a lot. She often called me about Excel crashing from time to time without being able to reproduce the problem. Today we have found a way to reproduce the crash every ...
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Pressing Win+E takes a very long time as oposed to double clicking My Computer
I had a similar problem with Microsoft Office files. If I opened Microsoft Word, for example, and then Ctrl-O to open a file, it would work instantly. However, if I double clicked on a file, it took a ...
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Fatal error: Acrobat failed to connect to DDE server
This is my problem: I can always open one PDF document in Acrobat Reader from Explorer, and sometimes more (especially soon after Windows restart). However, after some time it starts to fail: when I ...
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Auto: enable automotic update of links Ms-Excel?
How do I enable automatic updates of links for all users, even on other PCs?
I have more than 20 excel sheets that are all linked and need to update.
The problem is that sometimes users forget to ...
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Error adding right-click menu Edit option
I've followed the instructions to add an entry to the right-click menu, to add "Edit with Paint.NET" to the jpg right-click menu.
However, Paint.NET produces the error:
(The image type is not ...
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Clicking hyperlinks in Email messages becomes painfully slow
Running Windows 7 (RC, 64 bit). Suddenly, today, after months without a problem, clicking on links has become extremely slow.
I've noticed this in two places.
(1) clicking hyperlinks in Outlook ...
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