DDE link crashes in Excel 2010

Question

Hi, could you help me? 
The situation: I've got a macro which opens a specific MS Access file, then opens a DDE link, initiates a data import macro in that MS Access file and then closes the DDE link. This used to work completely fine even with Excel 2010 but after some updates
came, the Excel "hangs" after trying to open a DDE link. How to solve this? [I've found some similar topics here, but I'm not good enough to be able to apply the solutions for my situation]
The macro in Excel is like this:
 Sub Run_Access_Macro()
         'Opens Microsoft Access and the file nwind.mdb
            Shell ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\MSACCESS.EXE C:\Users\diana.berulyte\Desktop\Cred\Credentials.accdb")
         'Initiates a DDE channel to Microsoft Access
            Chan = DDEInitiate("MSACCESS", "system")
         'Activates Microsoft Access
           Application.ActivateMicrosoftApp xlMicrosoftAccess
         'Runs the macro "Sample AutoExec" from the NWIND.MDB file
           Application.DDEExecute Chan, "Import"
         'Terminates the DDE channel
          Application.DDETerminate Chan
 End Sub
If you can help, I would appreciate it!

Answer 1

Hi,
Did this issue occur after installed the Office Dec 9 update patches? If it is, please try to uninstall them to check the macro if it is working correctly. The PG team is working on there updates now.
On the other hand, as far as I know, the DDE is a very old technology, I recommend we try to use the Access object model instead of DDE.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff192120(v=office.15).aspx
If you have any further question about debugging code, I recommend you post the question to the MSDN forum for Excel
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=exceldev&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.