Okay I know this is probably not the best way to be doing things but I
have an ancient application that was working fine until a end user got
a new machine. The Access database is performing a mail merge. The
Word Document is linked to a temp table in the Access database. It
used to work fine in the past with DDE. Yes it opens another copy of
the database but it doesn't really matter and it worked.
So now with Access 2003 and Word 2003 it tells me that it can initiate
the DDE link. Works fine on my computer with Access 2003/Word 2003. I
installed service pack 2 and still the same problem. I didn't do the
office installing and am wondering if DDE is something that needs to be
installed?