[AccessD] VBA Offline Help

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 00:31:54 CDT 2022


Back in the day one could set help file names and numbers which indexed
into the file.  AFAICT MS abandoned all that.

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 1:22 AM Paul Wolstenholme <
Paul.W at industrialcontrol.co.nz> wrote:

> I've always wondered whether the .HelpFile property is of any
> practical use.  It exists at least for Forms, Reports and the Err object
> but I see no information on setting it globally or inheriting a default.
>
> Paul Wolstenholme
>
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 15:29, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> wrote:
>
> > Unfortuantely not, but I'v pinned the CHM file to the taskbar so that I
> > can call it up easily
> > when needed. :)
> >
> >
> >
> > On 27 Jul 2022 at 22:57, John Colby wrote:
> >
> > > Way cool.  Thanks for sharing.  Does this integrate back into the
> > > respective app by any chance?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:51 PM Stuart McLachlan
> > > <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Some clown at MS decide that anyone using an Access version after
> > > > 2013 would always have a good internet connection and made F1 go to
> > > > an MS website for every little syntax lookup in VBA.  They didn't
> > > > think about people like me :(
> > > >
> > > > (Just like the drive to force everyone to Office365! )
> > > >
> > > > I get really p***ed of when I just want to look up something basic.
> > > >
> > > > I've just found a site with the last version of VBA offline Help for
> > > > Access, Powerpoint,Word and Excel Object models converted to .CHM.
> > > >
> > > > It's not perfect, but at least I can now lookup a lot of things when
> > > > developing if the internet is down (not uncommon)  or when I am out
> > > > of range of  any internet connection (very common when travelling
> > > > around PNG).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/OfficeDev/VBA-content/tree/05ff9681074194e2f66f1d
> > > > 8ee36acceb7a906b 6b/VBA/Offline-Docs
> > > > <https://github.com/OfficeDev/VBA-content/tree/05ff9681074194e2f66f1
> > > > d8ee36acceb7a906b6b/VBA/Offline-Docs>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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