On Tue October 25 2005 16:33, Jonathan Lettington wrote:
> I use an application to manage our day to day business. It can output data
> to display, print, clipboard but also has the ability to throw data out at
> a DDE compliant application (such as Excel). The integration with Excel is
> so simple. Once the output has commenced;
> Excel opens automatically as a blank spreadsheet, with Sheet1 open and the
> spewed data automatically populates the spreadsheet into correct columns
> and rows (no need to save as csv and re-import). The DDE output will even
> rename the open worksheet from Sheet1 to "nnnnnnnnnn" where "nnnnnnnnn"
> represnets the title of the report that generated the output.
>
> I have installed OpenOffice2 but inspite of assiociating xls files with
> OpenOffice this fucntionality will not work. I have adressed this with the
> 3rd party application provider who say their product is fully DDE compliant
> and that it must be a fauly with the DDE engine contained within Open
> Office.
>
> I have searched scores of forums on this topic an dfound no solution. Any
> help anybody?
>
In OOo you should be able to find "Insert" -> "Object" -> "DDE" (or something
similar). I'm not sure how it works but maybe "Help" -> Contents will give
you some more details.
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