ACC: DDE Link Cannot Find Data; Opens 2nd Copy of Server App

ID: Q90881

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SUMMARY

Using Microsoft Access and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) to access information from an open DDE server application, such as Microsoft Excel, where the data does not exist causes the following error message to be displayed:

Remote data not accessible. Start application Excel?

If you choose the Yes button in the message dialog box, a second copy of Microsoft Excel is started with the name of the non-existent spreadsheet in its title bar.


MORE INFORMATION

This behavior is correct unless you already have a spreadsheet with the name given in the DDE link open in Microsoft Excel. If the DDE link cannot find the spreadsheet, a second copy of Microsoft Excel will be launched using the filename given in the DDE statement. However, the DDE standard is not to have running applications open documents.


REFERENCES

Microsoft Access "Introduction to Programming," version 1.0, Chapter 9, "Dynamic Data Exchange" 


Keywords          : kbinterop 
Version           : 1.0 1.10 2.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: March 11, 1999