RE: MS Visual Basic Help window doesn't display help on some topic
- From: "ThomasW" <ThomasW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:28:01 -0700
Hi, HJohnson919,
No, I never received any response to this, and the problem is still there,
just as before. I asked my friend who build my computer and who had
installed the earlier version of Office if he had any ideas, and he suggested
things that I'd tried already. I think the only solution might be for me to
wipe the hard drive clean and start over, or decide it's time for a new
computer (or an old used one that I can simply install the Access Help on).
MY sort-of-solution has been to buy two $50 tomes on Access VBA programming,
which have helped me through my questions. It would sure be conveient to see
the very help files that I used to originally learn the material, though.
"HJohnson919" wrote:
> Did you ever get any help on this? I have exactly the same symptoms and our
> IT department has not been able to fix it. I also have little boxes with a
> dot in them where the hyperlinks should be. My computer is standard IBM so I
> don't think it has anything to do with the hardware. I have similar problems
> in Word and Excel as well.
>
> "ThomasW" wrote:
>
> > I have Access 2000 installed as part of Office 2000 Professional SP2 on my
> > home-built PC that is running Windows 2000. I am trying to program in VBA
> > and look up help on certain topics, and find I am frequently frustrated by
> > the help topic's text (not) appearing in the right hand side of the help
> > window. Certain topics will appear there, and certain topics never do, and
> > never have since the computer was built.
> >
> > For example, I go to look up "database" in the Answer Wizard tab of the help
> > window. The first five topics listed are "CreateDatabase Method", "Databases
> > Collection", "Database Property", "Cataolg Object (ADOX)", and
> > "DestConnectStr, DestinationDB, DestinationTable Properties Example". I'd
> > love to read the help about the first three, but when I click on any of
> > those, or the 4th topic, nothing changes in the right hand side of the help
> > window--whatever was displaying there previously just stays there. Clicking
> > on the 5th topic brings up the promised help for that 5th topic.
> >
> > When I type "recordset" in the lookup box, of the twenty topics to display
> > that are listed below, only two can take me to the promised help text when I
> > click on them. Clicking on the other 18 does nothing. When I type "query"
> > in the lookup box, 3 of the 20 topics lead nowhere, while the other 17 do.
> >
> > I am building and programming Access databases and would very much
> > appreciate having access to all these help topics. I'm being blocked from
> > seeing help on most any advanced topic I'm interested in that pertains to
> > methods and to manipulating databases by code.
> >
> > Now, I don't know whether this is relevant or not, but I'll mention it. Two
> > years ago, the friend who built my computer temporarily installed his own
> > copy of Office on the computer--just a bare-bones installation. He hadn't
> > even installed VB Help files. When I received the computer, I did a
> > customized install of my legit copy of Office Professional, including
> > everything pertaining to VB and Access that I could see. But even then, two
> > years ago, a subset of my help topics would not display, and nothing has
> > changed since. I've de-installed and re-installed my copy of Office twice,
> > including using the Office Eraser program as supplied by Microsoft, but to no
> > avail. The second time, I even tried deleting the Haettenschweiller font, on
> > a tip from a friend, and custom installed just about everything except clip
> > art and eruo converters. Still no help of the subset of help topics.
> >
> > Is this an installation problem, or some other issue? Any idea how it can
> > be solved? Many thanks for anyone's thoughts.
.
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