Bob and Moon,

My VBA Help problem always happens. VBA Help used to work fine on this
machine, and I'm not sure what started the problem, but it has existed for
months now.

I attempted your suggestion...

I did not have an MSOHELP.EXE process until after I pressed F1 and the empty
help window was up. At that point, I kiiled the MSOHELP.EXE process. Now F1
does nothing. It doesn't even bring up the empty window anymore.

Is there a complete list of registry entries and .dlls associated with VBA
Help somewhere? I would like to uninstall Office2003 and make a clean sweep
of the VBA cobwebs left behind. (As I stated in my post, just uninstalling
and reinstalling does not fix my problem.)

--Scott

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

same here.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"moon" <6369706865725F6475646540706C616E65742E6E6C wrote in message
. ..

I have that too Scott, not always.
If it happens, I just press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I kill the MSOHELP.EXE
process
and press F1 again.





"Scott Hartog" schreef in bericht
...
The problem is that I cannot access any of the VBA Help Topics by
clicking F1 or by selecting a topic from the table of contents. The help
window pops-up, but it is always empty. Note that the help table of
contents
appears correctly in the right-side panel. This problem applies to the
VBA
Editor started from Excel and from Visio. I have not tried it from the
VBA
editor in other apps. It also applies to VBA help topics select from the
main
app (Excel, Visio). Note also that the non-VBA Help Topics (like the
main
Excel help) function correctly.

I originally posted this question on 7/7/2006 under the subject
"Frustrating
Problem with VBA Help in Office2003", but no one responded. I'm
re-posting
with a different subject line in the hopes of attracting an expert
response.
At least 1 other person is also experiencing this problem. They posted
under
the subject "Why can't I
access VBA Help topics?" on 6/6/2006 -- also with no resolution.

Details...

I have all (Excel, Visio, Word, Outlook, etc...) of the VBA Language
Reference options installed with Office2003. I have another machine with
the
same installation and the VBA Help Topics work fine there. Essentially
the
same applications are installed on both machines.

I am experiencing the problem listed in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as
KB887706. I have tried the solution listed in KB887706 (install
Access2003).
I have also run the repair utility for Office2003 and the re-install
utility
for
Office2003. I have additionally completely uninstalled Office2003 and
re-installed it
along with all the service packs and updates. (I re-booted between each
step.) For each of these attempts, I have installed all the Office2003
applications (including Access2003) and I have selected all of the VBA
Language Reference options to be installed.

None of these efforts have had the slightest affect on the problem. I
suspect that the problem is a registry entry or a file that is not
removed
by
the uninstall utility.

I rely heavily on the F1 key when I program VBA macros in Excel. Any
help
on
this issue would be greatly appreciated.

I have posted this to "Excel Programming" because there exists no forum
dedicated to VBA or to VBA help (at least none that I could locate).

--Scott Hartog