Helpdir path for Microsoft Word type library incorrect

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BilalD

Hello all

I have a tool that I use to wrap the automation functions for MS Word and I
use the type library to get information about those functions. I'm running
into a problem where if I try and open up the MS help for that function using
the shipping chm file, the path provided by the HelpDir entry in the registry
for that type library is incorrect.
For example, with the Word 11.0 type library, if you check out the info
using OLEView, I can find the name of the chm file but that path provided by
HelpDir is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\ when it actaully
should be C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\1033. Why isn't the path
correct? I would prefer not to special case this by adding the 1033 folder to
the path, but would like to depend on the type library and the registry to
give me this information, so that incase this changes in the future. Or is it
safe to assume that I should explicitly be looking in the 1033 subfolder for
the chm file?
Or maybe I'm looking for this in the wrong place?
The location im checking is
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\<Word 11.0 type library GUID>\8.3\HELPDIR

Thanks in advance
 

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