Thread: Built in Open With not always working with MS Office programs
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Old 04-10-2015, 07:43 AM   #6
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Yeah, apparently Office programs still use DDE (which was deprecated in windows 98) to open documents. Le sigh, now I have to go and implement a DDE client in python...why Microsoft, why.
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