KB156663 - Updated Accounting Program Drivers Available

Article ID: 156663

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager for Excel for Windows 95

This article was previously published under Q156663

SUMMARY

Several of the drivers for the Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager for Microsoft Excel (SBFM) have been updated. This article lists the updated drivers, and what is corrected in each updated driver. NOTE: The drivers are not new additional drivers for the SBFM. The files are updates to some of the drivers that shipped in the SBFM or in the Additional Drivers disk.

Instructions for Downloading

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Sbfmfix.exe

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

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MORE INFORMATION

The Updated Drivers

The following table lists the updated SBFM drivers, the dates of the updated drivers, and whether the drivers shipped in the SBFM or the Additional Drivers disk:

   Driver           Date        Source of original driver
   -----------------------------------------------------

   Aapacc.dll       8/28/96     SBFM
   Aapbww.dll       8/20/96     Additional Drivers
   Aapgreat.dll     8/20/96     SBFM
   Aapmas90.dll     8/20/96     Additional Drivers
   Aapqbw.dll       8/20/96     Additional Drivers
   Qbdrivhk.dll     8/20/96     Additional Drivers

The following sections describe what is fixed in each of the drivers listed in the above table.

Aapacc.dll - Computer Associates ACCPAC Plus for MS-DOS, version 6.1

Department information was not being read properly. This problem has been corrected.

Aapbww.dll - Businessworks for MS-DOS and Windows, version 9.0

Trailing white space on character strings was causing Profitability reports in Microsoft Excel to crash. The fix assures that any trailing white space is removed and all strings are NULL terminated.

Aapgreat.dll - Great Plains Accounting for MS-DOS, version 8.0

The company name was not being recognized. The search is now refined to get the record that contains the company information.

Aapmas90.dll - M A S 90 Evolution/2 for MS-DOS, version 1.5

The system file that contains MAS90 company information was not being processed correctly. The company file is now parsed to retrieve correct company names and to display them.

Aapqbw.dll, Qbdrivhk.dll - Quickbooks for Windows version 3.1

There was a problem working with the Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable/Inventory analysis that is now fixed.

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

154662 : SBFM: Contents of the Additional Drivers Disk

153031 : SBFM: Files Installed by MS Small Business Financial Manager

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