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From: slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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Subject: Re: Communication between applications
Summary: DDE
Keywords: Excel Word DDE
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Date: 1 May 91 12:25:49 GMT
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In article <cgross.673026113@surya> cgross@surya.UWaterloo.CA (Christian Gross) writes:
|Hi,
|	The question I have has been partially answered by MS support,
|but they didn't really know what they were talking about.  So maybe
|I'll give this question to you netters.
|	Is there any way that an application that I have written can
|exchange data with MS Excel / MS Word.  I do not mean that the
|operator uses Copy and paste.  What i would like to do is set up the
|latter two programs using marcos or formulas to grab data from my
|program.  MS said it is possible, but could not really give me a
|totally clear answer.
|
	I think the answer is DDE.