DDEInitiate causes Excel to hang

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Waldy

Hi there,
I am trying to run a simple DDE VB example, but the first line
hangs:

Dim chan As Long

chan = DDEInitiate("Excel", "System")

DDEPOKE chan, "Sheet1, R1C1", "Test"

DDETerminate chan

Can anyone tell me why?

XP Pro SP2, Office 2003, VB 6.
 
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