error 282 dde channel

[abner]

Trying to migrate by steps from XPpro/office2003 to 8pro/office 2013 pro.
My access application worked fine with FrontEnd on win8pro/office2003 running a little VBA versus a BackEnd on XPpro/office2003.
I installed office2013 on the win8pro FE, (the BE remained on XPpro/office2003).
Now when I run the FE it has a routine that should open a local word file, insert data from the BE, save to Word-file to the BE computer and attach the
revised word file to a new outlook mail (basically opening files on FE and BE computers), then I receive an error 282, "DDE channel..."
The workaround is to open (on the FE computer) any unrelated Word file from the BE computer and must keep it maximized. Only then does the access


work fine without the 282 error.
any thoughts what's bugging access 2013?

[ranman256]

Strange. Since the error says it cant communicate via the DDE, I dont see why it would work.
Did you try going back in to VBE menu, TOOLS REFERENCES, and see if there's an updated WORD OBJECT LIBRARY to use?

[abner]

thanks for your reply.
the references that are checked are:
visual basic for applications
ms access 15.0 object library
ole automation
ms dao 3.6 object library
ms activex data objects 2.1 library
ms outlook 11.0 object library
ms word 11.0 object library
Are these the libraries that suit access2013 ?
Thanks again