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

Yes, it's possible to specify which assistant you want, with
statements like

Dim oldAssist As String
oldAssist = Application.Assistant.FileName
Application.Assistant.FileName = Application.Path & "\offcat.acs"

But any given Office installation may have all, some, or none of the
assistants installed (they're individually selectable in a custom
installation), and they may or may not be in the Application.Path
folder (which is usually C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11
for Office 2003, or a similar path for earlier versions). So it's best
to precede that statement with

On Error Resume Next

and do whatever error handling you need.

When you exit your macro, set the user's preferred assistant back in
place with

Application.Assistant.FileName = oldAssist

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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On 18 Dec 2006 13:09:34 -0800, "Tom" <tomjohnson1492@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Jay. I had added the office assistant macro earlier, but ran
into a couple of difficulties. First, it seems like I can't make a list
of 7 items. I created a list with 6 and it worked fine, but when I
added one more, it gave me an error.

Second, when my office assistant did produce an error, the result was
to freeze the user's computer. I fixed them all and now they seem to
work fine. (Question: Is it possible to automatically call a different
office assistant, one other than Clippy?)

One note: I spent a while trying to figure out how to make an image the
button to click to set off a macro. After following a rather intricate
process from a certain website, I tried something different -- just
pasting the image in where I would normally write the text to be
displayed.

For example, {MACROBUTTON Overview image} where image is actually just
a little image. Turns out it works fine that way.
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