Researchers have discovered a flaw in the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program that, combined with its Power Query data-fetching component, can leave businesses open to so-called "Dynamic Data Exchange ...

Security researchers have devised a method to abuse a legitimate Microsoft Excel technology named Power Query to run malicious code on users' systems with minimal interaction. Power Query is a data ...

For example, if your workbook contains a DDEInitiate command, before the DDE connection gets established, by default the user sees a prompt like the one in the screenshot. Woody Leonhard/IDG Excel’s ...

If you want to turn off Dynamic Data Exchange or DDE in Excel, here is everything you need to know about Dynamic Data Exchange and how to disable it. There are three ways to do that – using Excel ...

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Use the following suggestions to fix the “There was a problem sending the command to the program” error in Excel or Word. Disable the Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE ...