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Pete - 22 Jan 2006 18:03 GMT

I am using the vba editor from word (word 2003 sp2 on windows xp pro sp2)

If I type a phrase in the help box I get a list of possible items as I would
expect, but clicking on some of them do nothing whilst others produce a help
window

Help for vba is correctly installed - so has anyone any ideas why some don't
work ?

Many thanks

example
Type 'declare array' in the help box I get 14 results but the first one
(declaring arrays) and others do nothing

pete

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 24 Jan 2006 16:24 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZQ==?=,

> I am using the vba editor from word (word 2003 sp2 on windows xp pro sp2)
>
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> Help for vba is correctly installed - so has anyone any ideas why some don't
> work ?

Well, here it works (brings up a help topic). But I agree: help can be finicky,
especially since MS has removed the indexing part of the window.

You can open the help (chm) file directly, so that you can use the index and
Find functionality. Look for VBAWD10.chm.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Pete - 25 Jan 2006 14:02 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZQ==?=,

> I am using the vba editor from word (word 2003 sp2 on windows xp pro sp2)
>
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> The same thing happens in Excel too

Well, here it works (brings up a help topic). But I agree: help can be
finicky,
especially since MS has removed the indexing part of the window.

You can open the help (chm) file directly, so that you can use the index and
Find functionality. Look for VBAWD10.chm.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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reply
in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

I have done some experimenting and find that if Access is installed then
Visual Basic Help in Word works, but if Access is not installed it doesn't

This can not be right - can it?

pete

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