I couldn't get OpenOffice Calc to work with ToS DDE even when shutting down Chrome. But I didn't really like that solution because I use Chrome a lot.
I searched and searched and even ended up paying for livevolpro to get my market data into Excel. But that was way too expensive.
Finally I...
So I've been using OpenOffice Calc on my Windows XP Pro (SP3) machine for years. I've been getting real-time market data through DDE from ThinkOrSwim desktop to my OO Calc spreadsheet. Things have been great.
Now for some reason I thought it'd be a good idea to move on to Windows 7 64-bit...