HOWTO: Find Articles About Visual Basic Applications Edition

Last reviewed: September 30, 1997
Article ID: Q138802
The information in this article applies to:
  • Professional and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit only, for Windows, version 4.0
  • Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 5.0
  • Microsoft Office for Windows, version 4.0

SUMMARY

For information about Visual Basic Applications Edition, and OLE Automation, use a combination of the following reference words to query in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Reference Word    Meaning
6.00              Applies to Word 6.0
6.00a             Applies to Word 6.0a
IAPOLE            Inter-Application Programming OLE issues
IAPOLEAuto        Inter-Application OLE Automation issues
officeinterop     Issues between office applications
kbmacro           WordBasic issues
XL5               In the title of Microsoft Excel version 5.0 *only*
                  articles

If you want to limit your query to one or two products, add the product mnemonic keywords to your query:

Product Name                                   Product Mnemonic
Microsoft Excel                                Excel
Microsoft Office for Windows                   Office
Visual Basic, Applications Edition             Vbapp
Visual Basic for Windows                       Vbwin
Microsoft Word for Windows version 6.x         Word6
Microsoft Word for the Macintosh)              Macword5


Additional query words: officeinterop W_VBApp W_Excel WM_OLE OA OLE
Automation kbquery
Keywords : IAPOLE vb416 VB4WIN vbwin GnrlVb kbprg
Technology : kbole kbvba
Version : WINDOWS:4.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto


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Last reviewed: September 30, 1997
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