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DDE LINK ERROR

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by wglawe

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I have a client that receives a access.exe error and then a DDE link failed error while trying to perform a merge in Word 2000 with Access 2000. What does this error mean, and how do you resolve it?

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by vinnyd

A DDE error is a communication error between two programs.

In this case I would try a new mail merge from a different access database into word. If it works then we can assume that in the DDE session that fails, there is something missing.

I would suspect that the Word Doc is trying to access a Field name that does not exist in the Access database.

You will need to check the Word Merge Doc and see what fields are required and open the Access Database and make sure that the fields do exist.

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