Using the X Command to Open a DDE Server A DDE server application can be opened using the X command within SAS code. The XWAIT and XSYNC options must be turned off. Using DDE and the SYSTEM Topic to ...

Let’s assume that you link an Excel file to a Word document. If the DDE Server protocol is turned on, the embedded file will be auto-updated in Word when you make changes in the Excel spreadsheet.

These examples use Microsoft Excel as the DDE server, but any application that supports DDE as a server can communicate with the SAS System. Before you run most of these examples, you must first ...