Hello Group,

I have installled Excel 2000 on a new Win XP Pc. When I activate help
in VBA, the cursor turns a horizontal arrow with arrow heads left and
right when I go into a cell window. I cannot select anything with this
strange behaviour.

Any explaination for this ?

Thanks,

Michael Singmin

From a previous post by David McRitchie

Try the following:
Bring up the Windows Task Manager and within the Processes tab,
select msohelp.exe then use the End Process button.
Bring up HELP again.



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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Michael Singmin" wrote in message
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Hello Group,

I have installled Excel 2000 on a new Win XP Pc. When I activate help
in VBA, the cursor turns a horizontal arrow with arrow heads left and
right when I go into a cell window. I cannot select anything with this
strange behaviour.

Any explaination for this ?

Thanks,

Michael Singmin

Thank you Tom,

Unfortunately, it does not work. That blasted arrow is still there.
Should I reinstall Excel ?
Btw, the Worksheet Help works perfetcly.

Michael

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

From a previous post by David McRitchie

Try the following:
Bring up the Windows Task Manager and within the Processes tab,
select msohelp.exe then use the End Process button.
Bring up HELP again.

I wouldn't.

I would reboot and see if that helps. I would clean everything out of the
Windows Temp directory.

See the google groups archive for this problem and see if anyone else has
another idea

http://groups.google.com

select advanced search.

What: double arrow help VBE
Newgroup *excel*

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Michael Singmin" wrote in message
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Thank you Tom,

Unfortunately, it does not work. That blasted arrow is still there.
Should I reinstall Excel ?
Btw, the Worksheet Help works perfetcly.

Michael

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

From a previous post by David McRitchie

Try the following:
Bring up the Windows Task Manager and within the Processes tab,
select msohelp.exe then use the End Process button.
Bring up HELP again.

Thank you again Tom,

Suddenly for no reason the VBA Help is working again.

Many thanks for your suggestions,

Michael

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

I wouldn't.

I would reboot and see if that helps. I would clean everything out of the
Windows Temp directory.

See the google groups archive for this problem and see if anyone else has
another idea

http://groups.google.com

select advanced search.

What: double arrow help VBE
Newgroup *excel*