This feature has been replaced by ODBC, which is much more powerful.

Selecting this option on the Info menu turns on the facility to use external software to extract data from the Access Data file.

DDE (Windows only) is a macro facility in third party software that can be run in that software to interrogate the Data in the Access Data file.

Access provides the file and field formats as a spreadsheet. This is all provided 'as is' to give you a starting point. Access cannot undertake to give further help with this, as it is not directly our responsibility.

As new versions of external applications and operating systems are released, Access cannot in any way guarantee that DDE will continue to work, as it is not under our control.