Problem word could not re-establish a dde connection to microsoft excel

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"word could not re-establish a dde connection to microsoft excel to complete the current task"

Hi,

I'm getting this error when trying to merge data from an excel spread sheet into word.
It seems to work fine on a Windows 7 PC with Office 2007, but on a Windows XP PC with Office 2010, I get the above error.

Has anyone come across this before?

Any help graciously accepted.

Thanks.