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From: garrett@brahms.udel.edu (Joel Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: DDE Questions/Information, please...
Message-ID: <17497@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 18:22:04 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware
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Hello all, I have a question regarding DDE, specifically pertaining to the DDE
section of the Petzold book (Chapter 17).  The first example in this chapter is
that of calling a DDE server from withing Excel.  Well, we plan on getting
Excel for Windows, but I'd still like to experiment with what we currently have
which happens to be the Windows version of Wingz.

Can I just type in the same info into an Wingz Spreadsheet cell (=DDEPOP|US_
Population!US) and have the same result?

Also, is it possible to send messages in the opposite direction as in this
example so that, for example, I could have a DDE client start up excel, have
excel open up a file that had been specified in an earlier dialog in the client
possibly perform some simple transformations and then send the transformed data
to the client for further use?  Is it possible to send commands and such to
Excel from the client to do things like execute excel commands and macros and
such?  I assume there would have be some documentatio somewhere of the standard
Excel DDE Topics and Items?  Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might
have...

						Joel Garrett

						garrett@brahms.udel.edu