Microsoft KB Archive/114803

New DDE Links Added to Middle of Links List

PSS ID Number: Q114803 Article last modified on 09-18-1994

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WINDOWS

= SUMMARY =

In Microsoft Project, when you use the Paste Link command to link data from another application, the dynamic data exchange (DDE) link information is stored in a list in the Links dialog box (to see this list, choose Links from the File menu). If you delete a link from the middle of this list, its position in the list will be used by the next item you link to the project.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

 * 1) Start Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel
 * 2) In Microsoft Excel, create a new worksheet with six rows of data.
 * 3) Select the first row of data in the Microsoft Excel sheet, and choose Copy.
 * 4) Switch to Microsoft Project, select the Name field for ID 1, and choose Paste Link from the Edit menu.
 * 5) Repeat steps 2-4 until five of the six rows in the Microsoft Excel worksheet are copied to Microsoft Project.
 * 6) In Microsoft Project, choose Links from the File menu.
 * 7) Select DDE Links.

Note the order that the links appear in.

  Select the third item in the list, and choose Delete   Choose Close.   In Microsoft Excel, copy the data in the sixth row, and, in Microsoft Project, choose Paste Link.   In Microsoft Project, choose Links from the File menu, and select DDE Links. 

Note that, instead of being placed at the end of the list, the new item is inserted in the list where number three was.

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