You can send key-ins to OpenPlant Support Engineering through a DDE link. For example, you can create a macro in a spreadsheet to start a DDE "conversation" with and send key-ins to OpenPlant Support Engineering .

OpenPlant Support Engineering understands the following types of DDE requests:

• INITIATE — Establishes a DDE link with OpenPlant Support Engineering .
• EXECUTE — Passes key-in(s) to OpenPlant Support Engineering .
• TERMINATE — Ends DDE conversation with OpenPlant Support Engineering .

Applications that can make these DDE requests include Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Object Vision, Visual Basic, and Word Basic.