Word 2000 and mailmerge With Excel 2000

[Rainer Pondexter]

Ever since I installed the latest (October 15, 2006) updates, I cannot get
Word to mailmerge with Excel 2000. It bombs out. It happened to my office
machine, my home machine, and my notebook. I finally deleted Office 2000 from
my home machine and reinstalled it. Now mailmerge works properly.

It seems that there must be a fix for this other than deleteing and
reinstalling Office. I tried just reinstalling Office, but it still didn't
work.

Suggestions appreciateed. I've got a motnh's worth of mailmerge to get done!!
Thanks.
Rainer

 

[Beth Melton]

I'm not aware of any conflicts in the recent updates but that doesn't
necessarily mean there isn't one - right now it's difficult to stay
updated on just Office XP through Office 2007.

We'd have to know more about "it bombs out" to help you with this. Do
you encounter an error message? If so, what is it? Are there any other
details you can provide?

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Microsoft Office MVP

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[Rainer Pondexter]

Regarding "bombs out". It says "Opening Excel", then something to the effect
"waiting for DDE commands", then it just hangs forever.

Hope this helps.
Rainer P.

 

[Beth Melton]

In Excel go to Tools/Options/General and make sure "Ignore other
applications" is not turned on.

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assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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[Rainer Pondexter]

The ignore other applications is NOT checked. Any other suggestions? It
happened to all three installations of Word2000/Exce2000 right after I had
the 10/15/2006 upgrades installed (automatically). There's probably a
corelation there somewhere.

Rainer.