Keith,

I usually get better results by typing the word, e.g, "range," clicking on
it, and pressing F1. I don't know why the results are different than the,
often irrelevant, results from doing a search in help, but they are. Maybe
the first is accessing the web and the second isn't?

As an aside, I miss the old "Contents, Index, Find" Help search dialog.
Maybe there's a way to get it back in XL 03 but I haven't stumbled across it
yet.

hth,

Doug

"keithb" wrote in message
...
Am I the only one having difficulty using Excel VBA help? It would be ever
so much more useful if documentation for objects, properties, events and
methods were returned in the search listings. As a new user, I did not
know
whether a Range is an Object, Property, or Collection, so I searched for
"Range" which did not return anything useful. As a result I wasted a long
time before finding Range under Collections.

Keith