When you get the dialogue asking which sheet, check the box which allows you to manually chose a connection method, and pick one other than DDE. ------------------------------------ GR Business Process Solutions Ray Blake Head of Software Design ray@xxxxxxxxx Braedon Newell Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP3 9PD tel: 01442 396518 fax: 01442 389353 www.grbps.com ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bill Sent: 22 August 2004 12:57 To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] mail merge Win2000, Office 2000.Pentium 2 with lots of memory. I have merged my membership list in Excel to Word to feed envelopes into the printer to by-pass the labels process. I was part way doing a second list (different names) the same way and after "the entire spreadsheet" came up on the screen I had a window pop up that said..Word couldn't re-establish a DDE connection to Microsoft Excel to complete the current task.That is as far as I can go.I tried several times to do it and always had the same window appear. I made out another spreadsheet from scratch and this didn't do anything either.Any suggestions how this happened and how can I fix it T.I.A........bill ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************