Problems with Excel 2003 Help menu
 

I am trying to utilize the help in excel (it is actually the vb editor help)
and when I look up topics, a lot of the links do not work. For example... I
search for "loop" and it brings up a whole list of topics to look at, but
only about half of them work. I want to look at the topic titled "Looping
through code..." which I have looked at before on other computers but here it
will not go anywhere. It is like the link is dead. I have tried "fixing and
repairing" from the help menu but that didn't help. Has anyone else seen this
and does anyone have any suggestions to fix it? Thanks.

Just a guess but when you run the Office 2003 installation program, under
Office Shared Features there is an option to install Visual Basic for
Applications/Visual Basic Help. I think that might not be selected by
default, so maybe you should re-run setup and check it out.

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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"BareBamboo" wrote in message
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|I am trying to utilize the help in excel (it is actually the vb editor
help)
| and when I look up topics, a lot of the links do not work. For example...
I
| search for "loop" and it brings up a whole list of topics to look at, but
| only about half of them work. I want to look at the topic titled "Looping
| through code..." which I have looked at before on other computers but here
it
| will not go anywhere. It is like the link is dead. I have tried "fixing
and
| repairing" from the help menu but that didn't help. Has anyone else seen
this
| and does anyone have any suggestions to fix it? Thanks.

That sounds exactly like what I want because some of the topics have "Visual
Basic for Applications" beside them. However, that feature was already
installed and even when I uninstalled it and reinstalled it, the same topics
do not function. It is like the help database is only half functional. It
just happens to be the half I would like to look at. Thanks.



"Jim Rech" wrote:

Just a guess but when you run the Office 2003 installation program, under
Office Shared Features there is an option to install Visual Basic for
Applications/Visual Basic Help. I think that might not be selected by
default, so maybe you should re-run setup and check it out.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"BareBamboo" wrote in message
...
|I am trying to utilize the help in excel (it is actually the vb editor
help)
| and when I look up topics, a lot of the links do not work. For example...
I
| search for "loop" and it brings up a whole list of topics to look at, but
| only about half of them work. I want to look at the topic titled "Looping
| through code..." which I have looked at before on other computers but here
it
| will not go anywhere. It is like the link is dead. I have tried "fixing
and
| repairing" from the help menu but that didn't help. Has anyone else seen
this
| and does anyone have any suggestions to fix it? Thanks.