Difficult without some code. Have you tried increasing DDETimeout?
If you can upgrade to 32 bit MapInfo then OLE Automation would be better
than DDE.
Regards
Bob
In message <000201bee7d2$4d7ae280$3e72a7ca@wayne>, BDT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Hallo MapInfo L'ers,
>
>We are GIS programers from BDT Hanoi, Vietnam..
>We are programming an application using DDE between MapInfo and Excel. This
>application works on Windows NT 4.0 using MapInfo 4.1 and Excel 97.
>The process is the following:
>MapInfo call a macro in Excel, then send data to Excel. After that,
>MapInfo call a macro to manipulate the data, then get the results back.
>Sometimes this application works well, sometimes it does not work. It
>calls a macro in Excel, but can not send data to and the process seems
>to be hanged until we use Ctr-Break.
>If anyone has a solution, pls help us.
>
>TIA,
>Cuong (Senior Programmer)
>
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