HOWTO: Find Articles About VB 3.0, Applications Edition

ID: Q112391

The information in this article applies to:

- Standard and Professional Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic for

  Windows, versions 2.0 and 3.0

- Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0 - Microsoft Excel, 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

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 (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
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: September 30, 1997