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I am trying to excute commands in Excel from an other window program.

As I understand it I should first send a WM_DDE_INITIATE to all
windows like this:

	wDDEServer = GlobalAddAtom ("Excel");
	wDDETopic = GlobalAddAtom ("System");
	SendMessage(0xFFFF, WM_DDE_INITIATE, hWnd,
		    MAKELONG(wDDETopic, wDDEServer));

And then I should wait for a WM_DDE_ACK from Excel (which should be
the only window answering for these parameters) and extract HWND
handle for the Excel window. Then I can send WM_DDE_EXECUTE messages to
that specific HWND for Excel and it will hopefully work... :-)

Now, the problem is that Excel will not answer the WM_DDE_INITIATE
message. I have used "spy" to verify that Excel really gets the
message, but it doesn't respond.


Anyone knowing what is wrong? I am using MS-Windows 2.03 and
corresponding version of Excel (2.1?, > 2 I am sure, but I dont have
the manuals with me at home).

I would be very pleased for any comment on this matter!

/Richard
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