DDE does not currently support the use of relative paths in this argument. Topic/File is a text string (in quotation marks), or a reference to a cell containing such a text string, that is the complete name of the file containing the data of interest, including path specification.

However, the availability of other servers will depend on your computer system, its setup and, its contents - further discussion of this aspect is beyond the scope of this wiki page.

The server name for LibreOffice is 'soffice' other DDE servers may be present on your system (for example, 'excel' for Microsoft Excel and 'winword' for Microsoft Word). Server is a text string (in quotation marks), or a reference to a cell containing such a text string, that is the name of a server application. Returns the appropriate data from a DDE request. Whenever the server subsequently detects a change in the data of interest, it automatically passes the update on to the client.ĭDE objects are linked by reference to their source they are not embedded in the target spreadsheet.ĭDE( Server Topic/File Item/Range ) The DDE function initiates a 'conversation' between Calc (the 'client') and another application that supports DDE (the 'server'), enabling the server to pass requested data to the client as the result of the function call. Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) is a legacy protocol that can be used to share data between applications.

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