mt4 multiple instances and dde

HI all,

Im trying to play with some dde just to get prices in spreadsheet - i've enabled dde in one of my 3 instances of mt4, and after opening the dde-sample provided, it is not updating at all - does it matter that i have multiple instances of mt4 running ? (all different brokers ofcourse)

also, im using OpenOffice - not excel, but i would assume that should be ok because its very similar.

thx

I tend to make sure that the file is in the main folder of the client with the DDE enabled.

You can also try launching the sample DDE file which in the root client folder and see if that works

Open Office does not use the same DDE formula as Excel. Try this formula instead:

=DDE("MT4";"BID";SYMBOL;1)

I believe that there is a help topic in Open Office regarding DDE that explains what each variable is.

Hope this helps?

thx guys - a bit strange but i closed the server mt4 and the spreadsheet, reopened the mt4 and then the spreadsheet and it got working ...

im not too sure of the problem but its ok now, thx

and yes - openoffice worked with the same formula