Re: VBA Help file not displayed properly

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Hi ken,

Are you saying all other Office help files work perfectly?

Please can you first find the VBA help file on your system, identify what's it's called, and then double click it. Do you get the same error?

It's no secret that Microsoft's CHM help system has become a mess, especially in the context of recent security updates where all kinds of functionality will break. There can also be an issue with script if it does not like your MSIE script settings, or if the links script files cannot be found for some reason. Make sure "Display a notification about every script error is ticked" and "Disable script debugging" is unticked in MSIE:Options:Advanced, then investigate the script errors one by one using "View:Source" and the script debugger.

Ken McLennan wrote:

G'day there One & All,

I recently upgraded from Win XP Home, to Win XP Professional. Not much of an upgrade really, but I now run the same OS as my work does.

Now that I've successfully got everything running, I've found a problem with VBA help files. Actually, the help files seem to be OK, but I think one of the .dll's might have bitten the dust.

When using the Office XP VBE, and using Help, I find that the VB specific help files don't display properly. The information is there, but there aren't any links at the top such as "Applies to", or "Methods", etc. I still have the help, but its usage is limited. Mostly I now (since about an hour ago) get a MSIE Script Error - "An error has occurred in hte script on this page" and "Object doesn't support this property or method". I've seen this message before, applied to my own code, but I don't expect to see it generated by a MS help page!!

I've reinstalled Office XP, repaired it, reinstalled the VBA Help files via the "Add or Remove Programs" facility in the Control Panel. Web searches have only located one single entry with the same symptoms, and this person solved the issue in 2003 by using a CD install instead of via his network. While I'm glad he solved the problem, he did so before anyone else offered any advice. His install problem is not an issue for me as I'm installing from CD to start with.

I thought that it may be a function of Windows XP itself, but then why wouldn't the other help pages have problems also?

Can someone perhaps point me to a library file that is used for these functions? (I may be able to copy a non corrupted file from a computer at work, but I need to know which one. I'm not about to copy the entire .dll file list). Or any other advice would also be greatly appreciated.

See ya
Thanks for listening,



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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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