Port blocked for VBA help

[Joel Wiseheart]

Our company has blocked a firewall port necessary for the
hyperlinks in Access VBA Help to work. Is there any other
way to get this functionality? A Microsoft web site
perhaps? I miss using the "Examples" and "Applies To"
links in the help menus.

And before you reply, no, there is absolutely no
possibility that the security group is going to open the
port.

I have other references, like these newsgroups, Google
and MSDN. However, I really miss being able to highlight
a VBA keyword in my code, press F1, and get a help screen
with all the info. The help does come up, it's just the
hyperlinks I mentioned ("Examples" "Applies To" , etc.)
that don't.

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[TC]

The examples & applies-to list are part of the help file. They do not
require access to the internet, AFAIK!

HTH,
TC

 

[Pete Lees]

Joel,

... The help does come up, it's just the hyperlinks I mentioned
("Examples" "Applies To" , etc.) that don't.

The chances are that the registry entries for the HTML Help ActiveX
control are broken on your system. This control provides the
navigation facilities in the help files, and a number of the security
patches for Internet Explorer that Microsoft has released this year
are known to break it.

The problem is described in Knowledge Base article 822989 and, in most
cases, installing Critical Update 811630 should sort it out.

822989: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822989
811630: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811630

The exception to this is Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 installed.
In this case you must unregister the control and then re-register it,
by running the following two commands from a command prompt:

regsvr32 /u <drive>:\winnt\system32\hhctrl.ocx
regsvr32 <drive>:\winnt\system32\hhctrl.ocx