[AccessD] VBA Offline Help

[Stuart McLachlan]

If it's your own .CHM, there is no danger - the danger is from third party .CHM files of 
unknown provenance :)

Yes, they still work from inside Access, at least in my case. Check out the sample I posted 
(URL in a previous message).

CHM files are opened with winhlp32.exe.

-- 
Stuart

On 28 Jul 2022 at 19:01, John Colby wrote:

> So with all the dangers, do CHM files still work from inside of Access
> FEs?  It seems to indicate perhaps it is viewed by IE which at least
> on my client's systems, the IT department has locked out.  Or is the
> CHM file now opened by edge or something?
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 6:11 PM Stuart McLachlan
> <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> 
> > Not just GMail:
> >
> > "Microsoft now considers .chm files to be potentially dangerous. In
> > fact, they are blocked by Outlook, Microsoft´s email client."
> >
> > https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/malicious-chm-
> > files/
> >
> > --
> > Stuart
> >
> >
> > On 28 Jul 2022 at 8:24, John Colby wrote:
> >
> > > 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/05ff9681074194e2f6
> > > > 6f1d 8ee36acceb7a906b 6b/VBA/Offline-Docs
> > > > <https://github.com/OfficeDev/VBA-content/tree/05ff9681074194e2f
> > > > 66f1 d8ee36acceb7a906b6b/VBA/Offline-Docs>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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