The other application is not responding because it is waiting for a response from the user. Switch to that application and close the dialog box or take an action appropriate to the message it is displaying.Timeout occurred while waiting for DDE response
Error 286
The other application in a DDE conversation did not respond in the time specified by the LinkTimeout property.
Possible causes:
The other application is not responding because it is waiting for a response from the user. Switch to that application and close the dialog box or take an action appropriate to the message it is displaying.
The LinkTimeout property is set to a value that is too low. Try increasing the value.
The other application is too busy to respond to DDE messages. Try calling the DoEvents function before performing this DDE operation.