Re: is it possible to customize text in the help pane?

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Tom wrote:
Is it possible to customize the text in Microsoft's help pane? I tried
using the Office Assistant, but two people's computers hung and
crashed when I did that. I'm thinking maybe the help pane may be more
stable. But it looks like I'd have to do some serious code editing to
make that work. Any tips?

I wouldn't try to customize the existing task pane for something that should
be so trivial. Programming the Assistant is this simple:

Sub ShowCustomAssistantText()
Dim wasEnabled As Boolean
Dim wasVisible As Boolean
Dim myBalloon As Balloon

With Application.Assistant
wasEnabled = .On
wasVisible = .Visible
.On = True
.Visible = True
Set myBalloon = .NewBalloon
With myBalloon
.Text = "This is custom text"
.Show
End With
Set myBalloon = Nothing
.Visible = wasVisible
.On = wasEnabled
End With
End Sub

If you still want to hack the task pane, have a look at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=288542 and especially
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/TaskPanesReference.htm. Be prepared
to find that you can't do what you want.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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