Hello All. Much has been said about the good and the bad about DDE. Among all the other alternatives, DDE is the only tool that provides cell level manipulation (pulling or putting the data at a specific location in the spreadsheet). Consider the case of an organization still running SAS 9.2 on Windows 7 (Both 64 bit) and Office 32 bit. (and PC file server not installed. Why? Admin rights on Desktop). The best recourse is DDE.