MT4 DDE link to EXCEL 2010 not working

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I am running MT4 & EXCEL 2010 on Windows 8 64bit. I cannot get the DDE link to work, EXCEL just hangs when i use the formula =mt4|bid!eurusd

I have activated the DDE server in MT4, Checked "transition formula entry" in EXCEL' and installed MT4 to a folder outside program files but none of these helped

Any other ideas on how to get this to work?

Thanks