Office 2000 Help - javascript Popup Help

[Will Smith]

In all the Help sections of Office 2000, there are words
that are in blue but not underlined. Clicking on such a
word (popup link) should bring up a definition or
explanation of the word(s) in blue... a popup Help.
However, when I click on a blue word in any Office 2000
Help, the Help Popup does not appear as it should.

A sample of the link property for the blue colored
word "control" in MS Access Help is as follows:
"javascript:HelpPopup('actip9.hlp','defControl');"

Using the Help menu item Detect and Repair... does not
correct the problem, nor does using the Add or Remove
Features in the Office Maintenance Mode in the Add/Remove
Programs feature of Control Panel in Windows 98 or Windows
XP Professional.

Is there a section of Office or the operating system which
will turn on the Help Popup feature when in the Office
2000 Help module?
Will Smith

 

[Pete Lees]

Will,

In all the Help sections of Office 2000, there are words
that are in blue but not underlined. Clicking on such a
word (popup link) should bring up a definition or
explanation of the word(s) in blue... a popup Help.
However, when I click on a blue word in any Office 2000
Help, the Help Popup does not appear as it should.

I believe that Office Update 262767 turns off the "Show Me" and pop-up
window definition functions in help. See this article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base for more information:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=262767

You may be able to restore the popup functionality by replacing
Ouactrl.ocx with an earlier version (for example, from the
installation CD). However, this may leave you open to the sort of
attack that the security update was meant to stop.