Re: Mail merge hangs: waiting for DDE

Try:

a. Opening the source Excel file first before commencing the mail merge
steps in Word. Close all other irrelevant excel files, if any.

b. Check & ensure the excel worksheet containing the data source for the
mail merge is the first one in the source Excel file, ie the leftmost tab.
The data worksheet might have "moved" away to the right due to new sheets
inserted subsequent to its creation.

Phil Lowery <phil.lowery@can.nmss.org> wrote in message
news:0b4b01c33cfe$2af33ed0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> When we try to open certain Word/Excel mail merge
> documents (opened through MS Word), we see a message on
> the status bar: "Waiting for Excel to accept DDE
> commands", and the system goes into an interminable
> hourglass "hang", or on other systems, crashes.
>
> What's up?