Microsoft KB Archive/213500

= XL2000: Client Is Not Updated with Multiple Instances of Excel =

Article ID: 213500

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q213500





SYMPTOMS
When multiple instances of Microsoft Excel are simultaneously serving as Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) clients to a single DDE server, only one instance of Excel is updated.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
This behavior is an issue with the current implementation of the DDE Management Library (DDEML). It occurs only when all of the following conditions are met:
 * There are two or more instances of the same program serving as DDE clients.
 * The programs all have objects with the same name (such as "Sheet1").
 * The programs all try to use Fetch.advise.

Additional query words: XL2000

Keywords: kbbug kbpending kbprogramming KB213500

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