Application.DDERequest method (Excel)

Requests information from the specified application. This method always returns an array.

Syntax

expression.DDERequest (Channel, Item)

expression A variable that represents an Application object.

Parameters

Name	Required/Optional	Data type	Description
Channel	Required	Long	The channel number returned by the DDEInitiate method.
Item	Required	String	The item to be requested.

Return value

Variant

Example

This example opens a channel to the System topic in Word, and then uses the Topics item to return a list of all open documents. The list is returned in column A on Sheet1.

channelNumber = Application.DDEInitiate( _ 
 app:="WinWord", _ 
 topic:="System") 
returnList = Application.DDERequest(channelNumber, "Topics") 
For i = LBound(returnList) To UBound(returnList) 
 Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, 1).Formula = returnList(i) 
Next i 
Application.DDETerminate channelNumber

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