Re: MS Visual Basic Help window doesn't display help on some topics
- From: gonzogb <gonzogb.1uekc2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:00:42 -0500
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. *
--
gonzogb
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