SUMMARYKeywords 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.
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The keywords are grouped below under the following headings: Keywords used in titles KBCategory Keywords (Subject and Type) KBSubcategory Keywords (Product Specific) Additional Reference Words Buglist/Fixlist Keywords in the ABU Databases
Keywords Used in Titles
This keyword Indicates article is about ----------------------------------------- OFF Microsoft Office (multiple versions) OFF7 Microsoft Office version 7.0 for Windows 95 XL Microsoft Excel (multiple versions) 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 MSQuery Microsoft Query
KBCategory Keywords (Subject and Type)
Every article in the Knowledge Base has at least one SUBJECT keyword, and may have a secondary keyword indicating the TYPE of article. The Subject and Type keywords are located in the KBCategory line at the end of an article.
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q94671 TITLE : Categories and Keywords for All Knowledge Base ArticlesThe following list discusses how these KBCategory keywords are used in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel:
Subject Keywords:
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)
Type Keywords:
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)
Example:
KBCategory: kbprg kbcode
KBSubcategory:
KBSubcategory Keywords (Product Specific)
Product specific keywords are located in the KBSubcategory line at the end of an article. The following is a list of product specific keywords used in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Word articles:
Major TopicMinor Topic KBSubcategory
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 offasst
Microsoft Excel
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
Microsoft Word
For information KBSubcategory keywords for Microsoft Word, please see
the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q123901
TITLE : How To Search Microsoft Word Articles by KBSubcategory
Microsoft Access
For information KBSubcategory keywords for Microsoft Access, please see
the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
ARTICLE-ID: Q119526
TITLE : How To Search for Microsoft Access Articles by
Subcategory
Microsoft PowerPoint At this time, Microsoft PowerPoint articles do not contain product- specific keywords.
Additional Reference Words
Words in the "Additional reference words" line at the end of an article include the following:
acronyms (such as gpf, mom, dal, dam, odbc, atp) 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 reference 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.
KBCategory: kbkeyword KBSubcategory: Additional reference words: 5.00
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