MT4 dde problem

[FastMoney]

I cannot extract Liffe FTSE-100 futures cfd bid/ask data into excel.

I have tried this and many combinations without any success

=MT4|BID!ftse-sep12

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[FastMoney]

I have found the answer.

It is not possible to dde link into MS Excel any data with a ' - ' in the symbol.
I can assume this may go for all other non-alphanumerics/punctuation marks.