How to Search for Office Product Articles by KBSubcategory
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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
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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
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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:
- The article that is a composite of the official published bug list
or fix list articles.
- The individual articles that are listed on the official published
list.
Additional query words:
Keywords : kbkeyword kbualink97
Version :
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type :