HOWTO: Find Articles About VB 3.0, Applications Edition

ID: Q112391

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Standard and Professional Editions for Windows, versions 2.0, 3.0
Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0
Microsoft Excel for Windows, version 5.0
Microsoft Office for Windows, version 4.0

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
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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
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Microsoft Excel (Cross-platform issues)        WM_Excel
Microsoft Excel for Windows                    W_Excel
Microsoft Office for Windows                   W_Office
Visual Basic, Applications Edition             W_VBApp
Visual Basic for Windows                       B_VBasic
Microsoft Word (Windows & Macintosh)           Word6

Additional query words: officeinterop W_VBApp W_Excel WM_OLE OA OLE Automation

Keywords : kbprg IAPOLE vbwin
Version : WINDOWS:2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto