Microsoft KB Archive/151263

= OFF95: 32-Bit Lotus Notes/FX 4.0 Does Not Work with Office 7.0 =

Article ID: 151263

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q151263



SYMPTOMS
When you use the 32-bit version of Lotus Notes 4.0 or 4.0.2, Field Exchange (FX) does not work with Microsoft Office 7.0.



CAUSE
Although Microsoft Office 7.0 is a 32-bit program, it includes only the 16-bit versions of the Lotus Notes dynamic link (.dll) files.

The 32-bit version of Lotus Notes 4.0 does not support application programming interface (API) calls to these 16-bit .dll files. Lotus Notes 4.0 only supports API calls to .dll files that use the same bit version (16- bit or 32-bit) as Lotus Notes 4.0.

Microsoft Office 97 includes 32-bit .dll files for use with Lotus Notes, so you can use Field Exchange with Microsoft Office 97.



WORKAROUND
In order to use Lotus Notes 4.0 or 4.0.2 FX with Microsoft Office 7.0, you must use the 16-bit version of Lotus Notes 4.0 or 4.0.2.



MORE INFORMATION
The Lotus Notes/FX support in the applications listed above allows you to use one of these applications to write to fields in a Lotus Notes database.

Microsoft Office 7.0 uses the following .dll files to exchange data with Lotus Notes:

_Sdk.dll

_Nsf.dll

_Lib.dll.

For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

121399 Information on Troubleshooting Notes/FX Issues

132238 OFF95: Lotus Notes Version 3.0 FX Not Supported

Additional query words: F/X

Keywords: KB151263

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