Access 2003 DDE link ain't working

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Andrew Walker

I have just upgraded to Office 2003 from 2000. All iswell and good except an
existing db that uses a DDE link with an emulator program will no longer work.

DDEInitiate seems to work and returns a channel number but the DDE
expression in a textbox controlsource no longer works - it just shows "#Name?"

Going back to basics I followed the help advice for linking to an Excel
spreadsheet using the convention DDE(application, topic, item) ie.
=DDE("Excel", "Sheet1", "R1C1") but still get "#Name"

So what has changed between Access 2000 and Access 2003?

Any help would be very gratefully received.

Kind regards

Andrew Walker
 

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