Client Not Updated with Multiple Instances of Excel

MORE INFORMATION

This is a problem with the current implementation of the DDE management library (DDEML). The problem will only occur when all of the following conditions are met:

• There are two or more instances of the same application serving as DDE clients.
• The applications all have objects with the same name (such as "Sheet1")
• The applications are all trying to use FETCH.ADVISE

Steps to Reproduce Problem

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1. Start Microsoft Query.
2. Open two instances of Microsoft Excel and run the following Visual Basic macro from each instance:

      Sub dde()
   
         chanNum = DDEInitiate("msquery", "system")
         ' Use the path for your query file for the following:
         ' Note: query files in Excel 97 contains a dqy extension.
         DDEExecute chanNum, "[open('c:\excel\query1.qry')]"
         nRows = DDERequest(chanNum, "NumRows")
         nCols = DDERequest(chanNum, "NumCols")
         DDEExecute chanNum, "[fetch.advise('Excel','sheet1','r1c1:r" & _
         nRows(LBound(nRows)) & "c" & nCols(LBound(nCols)) & "','all')]"
   
      End Sub
   						

   NOTE: You will need to create a query file to run this macro if you don't already have one. Use the path for this file in line 2 of the macro.)
3. Check Sheet1 on both instances of Excel; they should display a copy of the query.
4. Switch to Query Tool and from the Records menu, choose Allow Editing.
5. Change some of the records in the query.

Check Sheet1 on both instances of Microsoft Excel; the records should have been updated on one but not the other.