Closing Help Window From Keyboard

[W]

When someone offers you a solution, you might at least try it before
dismissing it out of hand. In this case, the solution you dismissed
out of hand was the correct one.

On my system Alt+F4 shuts down Excel. Of course I tried it before I
rejected it.

Ctrl+F1 worked perfectly to close the help child window while leaving Excel
open.

 

[GS]

On my system Alt+F4 shuts down Excel. Of course I tried it before I

rejected it.

Ctrl+F1 worked perfectly to close the help child window while leaving Excel
open.

Ctrl+F1 is the keyboard shortcut to hide/show the TaskPane in XL2003.
Since the TaskPane is actually a toolbar, it doesn't support the
keyboard shortcuts associated with a 'normal' window. That doesn't mean
the TaskPane isn't a window.., it's just a window of type 'CommandBar'
and so supports behavior associated with a commandbar.

All other versions of Excel display help in its own window and so
Alt+F4 is the standard Windows keyboard shortcut to close any window
that has focus. In XL2003, there is no help window per se, and so
Alt+F4 closes Excel because it has the focus.

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[Stan Brown]

Ctrl+F1 is the keyboard shortcut to hide/show the TaskPane in XL2003.
Since the TaskPane is actually a toolbar, it doesn't support the
keyboard shortcuts associated with a 'normal' window. That doesn't mean
the TaskPane isn't a window.., it's just a window of type 'CommandBar'
and so supports behavior associated with a commandbar.

All other versions of Excel display help in its own window and so
Alt+F4 is the standard Windows keyboard shortcut to close any window
that has focus. In XL2003, there is no help window per se, and so
Alt+F4 closes Excel because it has the focus.

Thanks for clearing that up. We could have gone back and forth for a
while without shedding any light.

Just a lesson to everyone to state which version of Excel they're
talking about!

 

[GS]

Stan Brown used his keyboard to write :

Thanks for clearing that up. We could have gone back and forth for a
while without shedding any light.

Just a lesson to everyone to state which version of Excel they're
talking about!

Sorry I wasn't able to convey this more clearly earlier on. I knew what
you were saying is correct, but after reading Jim's post I knew right
away we might be talking about XL2003's TaskPane.<g> My bad for not
being more explicit...

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