Error Message when opening Mail Merge doc

[Sho]

I have a mail merge document linking to records in an Excel file. Just
recently upon opening the Word document I now see the following message;

Opening this document will run the following SQL command
SELECT * FROM P:\Quotes\Quote log.xls
Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you wish to
continue?

If I say Yes I then see the next message;
This task is taking longer than expected do you wish to continue? If I say
No I see the next message;

Word could not re-establish a DDE Connection to MS Excel to complete the
current task.

Any ideas why this message has started to occur?

 

[Beth Melton]

The message you are encountering is part of the new security measures
Microsoft has incorporated in Word 2003 and Word 2002 SP-3. You can
suppress the message by using the Workaround found in this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825765

Regarding the timeout error, in Excel go to Tools/Options/General and
make sure "Ignore other applications" is not enabled.

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