Excel.Application.DDEInitiate.md

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Application.DDEInitiate method (Excel)	vbaxl10.chm132090	vbaxl10.chm132090	Excel.Application.DDEInitiate	4b14e2ee-d7b0-a028-42a7-0809fa381f7e	04/04/2019	medium

Application.DDEInitiate method (Excel)

Opens a DDE channel to an application.

Syntax

expression.DDEInitiate (App, Topic)

expression A variable that represents an Application object.

Parameters

Name	Required/Optional	Data type	Description
App	Required	String	The application name.
Topic	Required	String	Describes something in the application to which you are opening a channel, usually a document of that application.

Return value

Long

Remarks

If successful, the DDEInitiate method returns the number of the open channel. All subsequent DDE functions use this number to specify the channel.

Example

This example opens a channel to Word, opens the Word document Formletr.doc, and then sends the FilePrint command to WordBasic.

channelNumber = Application.DDEInitiate( _ 
 app:="WinWord", _ 
 topic:="C:\WINWORD\FORMLETR.DOC") 
Application.DDEExecute channelNumber, "[FILEPRINT]" 
Application.DDETerminate channelNumber

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