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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / General Topics / April 2004VBA Help Files, Not Working Under Win98
I have been running "Office97 Professional" under "Windows98 SE" for the last couple of years. I use Word, Excel and Powerpoint all the time and they work fine. Today, I started working on an Excel97 VBA programming project. I have not done any VBA programming since my Win95 days over 2 yrs ago. To my chagrin, I found that the VBA help files were nowhere to be found on my hard drive, so I had to fish out the release CD and copy them over manually. Then they came up but are not working correctly. I just booted an old Win95 machine where they installed correctly and work just fine. When the help files come up, I get the Index & Find tabs, but the Contents tab is missing. Ditto when I press F1 ... no Contents tab. If I open the help file directly off the CD, the Contents tab is there, but some of the topics are missing. Then, if I copy the *.hlp to my hard drive, and open it there, the Contents tabs are gone! Very perplexing! This behavior is not limited to Excel. It happens across the board for all Office97 apps. I just spent an hour surfing the Microsoft KB and a bunch of newsgroups. There are endless references to similar problems that others have experienced, but I can't make heads or tails of the solution, if there is one. I am hoping one of you MVP's can tell me what is going on and what the fix is? Please reply here and email me off list too if possible. Thx in advance! Yours, Henry Fiddler Denver, CO, USA Just a hint, do not use your real e-mail address or you will be inundated with spam/spyware and or virus laden attachments. At least add unknown or something to that effect to lessen automated scanners from stealing your e-mail address. I use a e-mail address for businesses and strangers as well as another one that is only for family and close friends. Both are real e-mail addresses but the first one accumulates lots of junk mail. | I have been running "Office97 Professional" under "Windows98 SE" for the | last couple of years. I use Word, Excel and Powerpoint all the time and [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] | Henry Fiddler | Denver, CO, USA Henry, As I told you in an email, I'm not currently equipped to help you directly, though I gave you MSDN Library online as an alternate source for VBA reference. Mostly, I'm posting this here so I can find this thread again, easily.  SignatureGary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x > I have been running "Office97 Professional" under "Windows98 SE" for the > last couple of years. I use Word, Excel and Powerpoint all the time and [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Henry Fiddler > Denver, CO, USA > I have been running "Office97 Professional" under "Windows98 SE" for the > last couple of years. I use Word, Excel and Powerpoint all the time and > they work fine. Ditto. > Today, I started working on an Excel97 VBA programming project. I have > not done any VBA programming since my Win95 days over 2 yrs ago. To my > chagrin, I found that the VBA help files were nowhere to be found on my > hard drive, so I had to fish out the release CD and copy them over > manually. Hmmm. As I remember it, I selected options during the install process to have those files installed. > Then they came up but are not working correctly. That doesn't surprise me. You cannot just copy them manually, AFAIK. > I just booted an old Win95 machine where they installed correctly > and work just fine. You said "installed" ?? Why not run the Office 97 install and elect to install the VBA help files? > When the help files come up, I get the Index & Find tabs, but the > Contents tab is missing. Ditto when I press F1 ... no Contents tab. If [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Henry Fiddler > Denver, CO, USA WHOOPS! False alarm folks. Problem solved. I uninstalled and reinstalled and everything is fine now. Apparently when I installed, I saw some gray checkmarks and read the help text and it mentioned the VBA help files, so I assumed they were being installed. Not so. I had to click down one more level, and in fact, the reason for the gray checkmark was because the VBA help files were unchecked, unbeknownst to me! So by changing the gray checkmark to a dark black checkmark, the help files were installed properly. Many thanks to both Gary and Hugh whose advise was heeded and solved the problem! Best, <<Henry>> previous message: > I have been running "Office97 Professional" under "Windows98 SE" for the > last couple of years. I use Word, Excel and Powerpoint all the time and [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Henry Fiddler > Denver, CO, USA Next time do not uninstall/reinstall unless absolutely necessary. As Hugh pointed out, all you had to do was run the setup and select add/remove components to install individual ones. SignatureBrian A. Jack of all trades, Master of none. One can never truly be a master as there is always more to learn. > WHOOPS! False alarm folks. Problem solved. I uninstalled and reinstalled > and everything is fine now. [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > > Henry Fiddler > > Denver, CO, USA |
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