Re: Word 2000 DDE Speed

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From: Cindy M -WordMVP- (C.Meister-C_at_hispeed.ch)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:32:00 +0200

Hi Stefan,

I'm assuming that I've understood you correctly, and none of the
automation code is actually within Word? (Jay seems to be making the
same wrong(?) assumption that Doug did...)

But Jay is correct on the point that the commands DDE uses to
communicate with Word 97/2000/2002/2003 are no longer the "valid"
programming language. DDE *must* use WordBasic to communicate with Word
(any version), but WordBasic is no longer the "correct" automation
language for Word; VBA is. This will cause problems, will definitely be
slower, and in the long run will probably cease to work, as the
underlying structures change over time.

So, someone should probably start looking at "translating" this
functionality from DDE to OLE automation so that you're ready to
transition by the time you upgrade to the next version of Word.

> Word 2000 (unlike Word 95)
> has problems with big sets of documents. After composing about 500
> documents, Word 2000 is not able to close document and open following.
> Bookmark setting is performed on open document, but another operations
> are not done (opening, closing, printing). (No errors reported by
> Word.) I don't know if it is caused by implementation of wordbasic in
> Word 2000 or by problems with DDE connections. I have to remark again,
> that with Word 95 everything is fine.
>

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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