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11.3 General DDE Support
Smart Control can work with other applications acting as DDE servers. Select the Other option in the DDE
Program combo box (Figure 11-2) if you want to select an application other than that already selected.
The following steps explain how to use this feature.
1. Select the Other option in the DDE Program combo (dropdown list) box on the Select the DDE Server
dialogue box.
2. A help dialogue box appears (shown below) giving instructions you should follow.
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3. Run your selected DDE application (server) EXE file.
4. Open the file of contacts (if any) in your DDE application (server).
5. Enter your selected DDE application’s Services Name and Topic Name, and the command which
replaces SN@TN@CMD in the Command edit box. Replace the phone digits in the command with
“CLID”. Figure 11-7 shows how the dialogue box would appear when Microsoft Access is selected as
the other DDE application (server).