[AccessD] VBA Offline Help

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 07:24:56 CDT 2022


Do you have any idea why .chm files would be considered dangerous by
gmail?  It complained when I tried to attach these file to send to a
colleague.

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/05ff9681074194e2f66f1d8ee36acceb7a906b
> 6b/VBA/Offline-Docs
> <https://github.com/OfficeDev/VBA-content/tree/05ff9681074194e2f66f1d8ee36acceb7a906b6b/VBA/Offline-Docs>
>
>
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John W. Colby
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