A source of information about Microsoft Office data exchange.Helen Feddema has been working with Word since v. 1.1, Access since the beta of v. 1.0, and Outlook since the beta of v. 8.0 thats where Outlook started its version numbering. In the early days, DDE was the only way to exchange data among Office applications, and it was cumbersome, cryptic and unreliable. When OLE Automation came along, it made data exchange much easier, and since Office 97, all the major Office applications support OLE as both clients and servers, so it is possible to control one Office application from any other, providing you know the syntax for doing OLE Automation in the dialect of VB used by that application VBA for most, VBScript for Outlook forms.

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