Not sure if this is relavent but I use DDE links in one of my workbooks and
the apllication the DDE links to has to be open to retrieve data!

"ashaback" wrote:

I have setup my data sources correctly and stuff, but when I go to get
external data or test my data source I get the error

SQL STATE 08004
NATIVE:0
MESSAGE:[openlink][odbc]RPC:Program unavailable.

Please help.

Much appreciated