Microsoft KB Archive/123516

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SUMMARY
Keywords are used to categorize all articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and to make information easier to find. Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Word articles contain some additional product-specific keywords. The following information describes these keywords and explains how they can be used to search for specific types of articles.

MORE INFORMATION
The keywords are grouped below under the following headings:

Keywords used in titles

Keywords (general and product specific)

Product-specific Keywords

Additional Query Words

Buglist/Fixlist Keywords in the Office Products Databases

Keywords Used in Titles
  This keyword   Indicates article is about -

OFF           Microsoft Office (multiple versions) OFF2000       Microsoft Office 2000 OFF97         Microsoft Office 97 OFF95         Microsoft Office version 7.0 for Windows 95 OFF4          Microsoft Office 4.x      XL             Microsoft Excel (multiple versions) XL97          Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows XL2000        Microsoft Excel 2000 XL4           Microsoft Excel version 4.0 only XL5           Microsoft Excel version 5.0 only XL7           Microsoft Excel version 7.0 for Windows 95 MXL5          Microsoft Excel version 5.0 for the Macintosh only

xlquery       Microsoft Query

Keywords (general and product specific)
Every article in the Knowledge Base has at least one general keyword, and may have other product-specific keywords that indicates the usage topic of article. The keywords are located at the bottom of an article below the Additional Query Words line.

The following list discusses how these keywords are used in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel:

General Keywords That Pertain to Office:

  kbtool     For articles discussing Microsoft Query, add-ins, ToolPak functions, spelling checker, function wizard, chart wizard

kbprg     For articles discussing programming issues (macros or Visual              Basic procedures)

kbcode    For articles that contain sample Visual Basic code

kbmacro   For articles that contain Microsoft Excel version 4.0 macro code

kbbuglist For articles that contain the program's official

kbfixlist published bug/fix list or are listed in the program's bug/fix list (see the "Buglist/Fixlist Keywords             in the ABU Databases" section below)

Product-Specific Keywords
The following is a list of product specific keywords used in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Word articles:

Major Topic Minor Topic                                           Keyword -

Office Font Assistant                                        fontasst Article applies only to Microsoft Office for the Mac  offmac Article applies only to Microsoft Office for Windows  offwin Disk contents/directory for Microsoft Office          offdir Interoperability between Office products              officeinterop Office Assistant (from Microsoft Office 4.x)          offasst

The following KBSubcategory keywords apply to Microsoft Office 97: Microsoft Office for Windows setup                    offwinsetup Microsoft Office for the Macintosh setup              offmacsetup Microsoft Binder                                      offbinder Internet                                              offweb Interoperability                                      offinterop Help                                                  offhelp Microsoft Office Resource Kit                         offork Network Install Wizard                                offniw Microsoft Office Developer Kit                        offdevkit Web Find Fast                                         offwebfind Microsoft Office Personal Web Server                  offpws Microsoft Office Service Pack                         offsrvpak Microsoft Office Value Pack                           offvalpak Microsoft Office Small Business Pack                  offbundle Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar                         offosb Microsoft Office Setup Upgrade                        offupgrade Microsoft Office Run from Server Setup                offrfs Microsoft Office Administrative Setup                 offadmin Microsoft Office Local Setup                          offlocal Microsoft Office Assistant (from version 97)          offassist Printing                                              offprint Bookshelf                                             offbookshelf General Protection Faults (GPFs and Crashes)          offgpf Office Help topics that will be available on the Web  kbualink97 Microsoft Excel, all versions: Article applies only to Microsoft Excel for the Mac   xlmac Article applies only to Microsoft Excel for Windows   xlwin Article applies to Microsoft Excel for Windows NT     xlnt Disk contents/directory for Microsoft Excel           xldir Microsoft Query                                       xlquery

The following KBSubcategory keywords apply to Microsoft Excel 97: Printing                                              xlprint Charting                                              xlchart PivotTables                                           xlpivot Formulas                                              xlformula Templates                                             xltemp Wizard                                                xlwiz Quattro 123                                           xl123Quattro Internet                                              xlweb Help                                                  xlhelp User Interface                                        xlui Visual Basic for Applications information             xlvbainfo Visual Basic for Applications how to                  xlvbahowto Microsoft Excel version 4.0 macro code information    xlminfo Microsoft Excel version 4.0 macro how to              xlmhowto Drawing Layer                                         xldraw Proofing tools                                        xlproof Workgroups                                            xlwgroups Load/Save                                             xlloadsave Add-Ins                                               xladdins Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager            xlsbfm Microsoft Excel for Windows Setup                     xlwinsetup Microsoft Excel for Macintosh Setup                   xlmacsetup Microsoft Excel DAO                                   xldao Formatting                                            xlformat List Management (filtering, consolidation, etc.)      xllist Microsoft Excel Map                                   xlmap GPFs and Crashes                                      xlgpf Microsoft Excel toolbar                               xltoolbar VBA Migration Issues                                  xlvbmigrate Microsoft Excel Viewer                                xlviewer Microsoft Access For information KBSubcategory keywords for Microsoft Access, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: "Q119526 How To Search for Microsoft Access Articles by Subcategory" Microsoft PowerPoint At this time, Microsoft PowerPoint articles do not contain product- specific keywords.

Additional Query Words
Words in the "Additional query words" line at the end of an article include the following: acronyms (such as gpf, mom, dal, dam, odbc, atp, osbp, sbfm)

alternate spellings or word choices (such as Novel, toolpack, tool pack, hang crash, lock up, freeze, won't respond, interop)

howto (This word appears in articles that describe a procedure that is not necessarily a problem or a bug. It is typically used for informational articles.)

words that don't appear in the article that you might use to find the article (For example, the words XL5 and MXL5 generally appear in the title of articles that ONLY apply to version 5.0 of Microsoft Excel for Windows or for the Macintosh, respectively. Due to the limited number of characters allowed in the title, this keyword may appear in the Additional query words line instead.)

Buglist/Fixlist Keywords in the ABU Databases
Although kbbuglist and kbfixlist are TYPE keywords that apply to all articles in the Knowledge Base, the following describes how these keywords are used in Office and Microsoft Excel.

Office:

Currently, these keywords are not used in Office articles, although they are used in articles for the individual Office programs.

Microsoft Excel:

The kbbuglist and kbfixlist words appear in the following articles:
 * 1) The article that is a composite of the official published bug list or fix list articles.
 * 2) The individual articles that are listed on the official published list.

Additional query words:

Keywords         : kbkeyword kbualink97 Version          : Platform         : WINDOWS Issue type       :
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