Hi, I'm trying to read the first 2 pages of multiple rtf files and put them into 1 document. Everything I have found says I need to use dde. I tried the following program (I've simplified it as much as possible). %macro s; %LET RC=%SYSFUNC(SYSTEM(START WINWORD)); FILENAME WORD_F DDE 'WINWORD|SYSTEM'; DATA _NULL_; X=SLEEP(15); RUN; DATA _NULL_; FILE WORD_F; PUT '[FILEOPEN .NAME = "D:\tmp\tmp.rtf"]'; PUT '[FILECLOSEALL]'; PUT '[FILEEXIT]'; RUN; %mend; %s; This is as simple as I could get it yet I am still getting this error: NOTE: The file WORD_F is: DDE Session, SESSION=WINWORD|SYSTEM,RECFM=V,LRECL=32767 ERROR: DDE session not ready. FATAL: Unrecoverable I/O error detected in the execution of the DATA step program. Aborted during the EXECUTION phase. Any ideas on what is causing this error or is there a better way than dde? Thanks, Marie
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