At work, when I try to open the Excel spread from word mailmerge WORD. 'Word could not re-establish a DDE connection to Microsoft Excel to. Word could not re-establish a DDE connection to Microsoft Excel to complete the current task. However, word open simultaneously the excel source file.

Mail Merge, Printing Labels using Mail Merge with data from Excel Mail Merge, Printing Labels using Mail Merge with data from Excel Location: Home page: Excel can be used to supply the data to mailmerge in MS Word. Backyard football 2008 online. I found this a little tricky first time but have done this from both XL95 and XL2000. Excel makes a nice table column for name, address, city, zip state, zip code. Excel does not give you reformatting options to create another sheet using the information, you would have to write a macro. Word will convert your table to labels without any problem and maintain the label boundaries; therefore, Excel by itself is not suited to the task of creating labels, but Excel with Mail Merge in Word works just fine.

Directions for preparing data in Excel to print Labels (#preparation).