Access help is poor

[A Man]

Since about Access 95 or 97, Microsoft removed any bookmarking or
"favorites" feature in the help system. CHM help is supposed to have a
Favorites tab but I have found no MS products that use it yet.

My question is, I use the help file mainly for looking up methods and
properties for Access objects. Is there a better help system out there?

If I use the Answer Wizard, none of the choices is, for example, "Report
object". I have to search and search in oddball places just to find the
object I want. I have the same issue with the Index.

 

[Marshall Barton]

Since about Access 95 or 97, Microsoft removed any bookmarking or
"favorites" feature in the help system. CHM help is supposed to have a
Favorites tab but I have found no MS products that use it yet.

My question is, I use the help file mainly for looking up methods and
properties for Access objects. Is there a better help system out there?

If I use the Answer Wizard, none of the choices is, for example, "Report
object". I have to search and search in oddball places just to find the
object I want. I have the same issue with the Index.

I use either VBA Help search or the Object Browser to locate
all properties and methods. It's decent in A2002 and pretty
good in A2003.

OTOH, I also keep A97's ACMAIN80.HLP file as a desktop icon
so I can have an index to search.